Roberta Gentry

Los Angeles-based artist Roberta Gentry creates paintings that bring together botanical forms, science fiction imagery, and medieval iconography to explore ways humans are making sense of the world.

Drawing from seemingly disparate visual traditions, Gentry constructs evocative environments where the natural, the fantastical, and the symbolic all intersect; considering how myths, belief systems, and imagined narratives emerge from our attempts to interpret lived experience, giving shape to the mysteries and uncertainties of existence.

Botanical imagery is used to introduce associations with growth, transformation, and the cycles of life, while science fiction and medieval references open up alternative worlds shaped by wonder, spirituality, and the unfamiliar encouraging viewers to navigate the spaces between observation and imagination, the tangible and the otherworldly, examining how the stories we create help us understand our experiences and construct meaning from the unknown.