Women's History Month: Flora and Fauna

Women's History Month: Flora and Fauna
Spotlighting Women's Voices Through Art and Nature

Celebrating Women’s History Month this March, this curated selection of artworks by female artists—“Flora and Fauna”—honors the natural world as a powerful metaphor for growth, resilience, and interconnectedness. 

Through this theme, each edition reflects the diverse stories, experiences, and perspectives of women across generations, highlighting the enduring connections between nature, creativity, and collective history. 

 These limited edition prints capture both personal and collective narratives, connecting artistic expression to the cycles of nature and the rich legacies of women in art.

Explore the artists, their processes, and the stories behind their work below.

MADELEINE BIALKE
Split End
22.75 x 20 inches
Archival pigment print

Limited edition of 15 with 5 AP + 1 PP
Hand-embellished, signed, and numbered by the artist 

ONLY ONE PRINT LEFT

A complex image in which sinewy branches and leaves cast overlapping shadows onto a dreamlike forest landscape, Split End centers on a split tree trunk lit by the warm, pink light of a setting sun.

Bialke notes, “The title ‘Split End’ evokes two visual paths—two different endings—that a viewer can take. The anthropomorphic trees and foliage relate to bodies and other organic matter, in an attempt to forge connections between all living things.” 

For this limited edition, Bialke has numbered the prints and altered the sky in accordance to their sequential order, to chronicle the passage of time from late afternoon to night. 

NIKKI MALOOF
Climbing Rose
24 x 18 inches
Archival pigment print

Limited edition of 10
Hand-embellished, signed, and numbered by the artist

Limited edition of 20 with 5 AP + 1 PP
Signed and numbered by the artist 

In Climbing Rose, a cluster of flowers blooms from the earth, while insects such as butterflies and ladybugs grace its pale yellow petals.

In Maloof’s own words, “The garden is a place where I find lots of inspiration. It is a constantly changing place, with things growing, dying, being born, and eaten. There is beauty, and there is darkness.”

For this limited edition, Maloof hand-embellished ten prints by rendering and collaging additional garden creatures.

SUSAN CHEN
Just Do
24 x 18 inches
Archival pigment print

Limited edition of 5 with 3 AP + 1 PP
Hand-embellished, signed, and numbered by the artist

ONLY ONE PRINT LEFT

Depicting a vibrant bouquet situated before a crimson background, Just Do is inspired by a letter that Sol Lewitt once wrote to Eva Hesse.

In Chen’s own words, “As we get older, we start worrying about what others might think of us, what the consequences of our actions might be, and whether we’re making the right decisions. I find that I often have to remind myself to quiet the anxiety, and ‘Just DO.’ I hope this flower painting serves as a motivational reminder for my viewers as well.”

For this limited edition series, Chen imbued each print with the word 'DO' or phrases once said by a variety of modern-world heroes, and new elements rendered through acrylic or gouache paint.

CAROLINE LARSEN
Flowers with Plaid Version 4
21 x 21 inches
Archival pigment print 

Limited Edition of 5 with 2 AP
Hand-embellished, signed, and numbered by the artist

In Flowers with Plaid, Larsen builds upon her robust practice of otherworldly floral still lifes in elaborate faience, a style of French earthenware produced from the sixteenth through the end of the eighteenth century that gained popularity during the Art Deco period.  

The artist has hand-embellished each print in the edition with colored pencil, Japanese paper, and acrylic paint making each work unique.