Branch Out: Art Exhibition

Exhibition Description:
The artists hope that each viewer comes away with a sense of how collecting and organizing the chaos of nature allows you to revere the landscape.

Dede Leither & Nicholas Leither: They begin outside—walking, watching, gathering.

The furniture begins with a walk—through woods and around lakes—where branches, each shaped by weather and time, are harvested with care. Bent and joined, they become chairs and tables that honor the form and history of the forest they came from. No piece is exactly repeatable. Each carries the memory of a place.
The landscape paintings, created outdoors in shifting light, respond to the same natural world. Working in tonality, these pieces are not portraits of particular places so much as evocations of time—those liminal hours when the sun is low, the air hushed, and color becomes feeling.
Both practices involve stillness. Sitting, looking, building, layering. They call for patience and a kind of attention that deepens with time. They are acts of both solitude and conversation—between artist and subject, between one another, and between the work and its viewer.
This show is a record of those conversations. Of being out in the world, and then returning—bringing back what we’ve found and made, noticed, then created.