Marc Selwyn Showcases Michelle Stuart's Botanical Work
The Beverly Hills solo exhibition traces Michelle Stuart's engagement with the botanical world across nearly four decades.
Updated on Nov. 2, 2026 in Fine Art
Marc Selwyn Fine Art presents Michelle Stuart: Back to the Garden, a solo exhibition in Beverly Hills, CA. The show includes paintings, works on paper, and photographic installations spanning 1985 to 2023.
Why it matters
The exhibition brings together Stuart's long-running use of seeds, plants, soil, and beeswax in her art. It also anticipates her upcoming retrospective at the Hammer Museum in April 2028.
The exhibition's works are dated 1985 to 2023, covering nearly four decades of Stuart's practice. The retrospective at the Hammer Museum is slated for April 2028, while the exhibition's total number of works and run dates are not specified.
The players
Michelle Stuart
Michelle Stuart is an American artist internationally recognized since the 1970s for site-specific earth works, drawings, paintings, sculpture, and photography.
Marc Selwyn Fine Art
Marc Selwyn Fine Art is a Beverly Hills gallery that presented the solo exhibition of Michelle Stuart's work.
Hammer Museum
The Hammer Museum is a University of California, Los Angeles museum that will host Stuart's upcoming retrospective in April 2028.
The details
The exhibition features paintings, works on paper, and photographic installations. Stuart crushes seeds into paper, and in some seed calendars applies heat to rupture seeds so their oils and moisture stain the paper. Earth, plants, petrified fossils, and archaeological shards are embedded in wax with petroglyphic motifs.
Timeline
1985: Earliest works in the exhibition date from this year.
1992: Extinct works combining botanical specimens, wax, and hand printing on rice paper were created.
2013: The retrospective Michelle Stuart: Drawn from Nature originated at the Djanogly Art Gallery in Nottingham.
2017: Stuart's work was included in Viva Arte Viva, the 57th Venice Biennale.
April 2028: Upcoming retrospective opens at the Hammer Museum.
Big Picture
The Beverly Hills show extends a line of retrospectives that began with Michelle Stuart: Drawn from Nature at the Djanogly Art Gallery in Nottingham in 2013. It also sets up the Hammer Museum retrospective in April 2028, continuing a pattern of major institutional recognition for Stuart's botanical and earth-based practice.
Visitors to Marc Selwyn Fine Art in Beverly Hills can view the exhibition of paintings, works on paper, and photographic installations. The Hammer Museum retrospective in April 2028 offers a second opportunity for local audiences to see Stuart's work in person.
The takeaway
Stuart's use of seeds, plants, and wax shows how natural materials can serve as both medium and record. Readers interested in this approach can see how the work moves from the Beverly Hills gallery to the Hammer Museum in 2028.
What happens next
Michelle Stuart's retrospective opens at the Hammer Museum in April 2028.
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Source note: This article includes information reported by Artdaily.
