Press release, The RISD Museum
Inspired by Roman wall painting, classical vessels, and plant forms, Il Giardino Dipinto—a promised gift to the Museum from Woodman’s son Charles and his wife Andrea—is a colorful glazed earthenware installation that measures nine feet high by thirty-five feet long and is composed of more than sixty parts. Woodman’s painted garden features a balustrade of flat half vases above which three fully three-dimensional vases are mounted. The space around these vases is filled with flattened vessels, handles, shelves, and plant parts. The garden’s space is ambiguous, allowing the viewer to be simultaneously inside looking outside and outside looking inside its architectural framework.
