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June Bunch: State Flower Ladies

Opening Reception/Meet the Artist:
Saturday, April 11, 5pm to 8pm

Gallery Talk with June Bunch + Live Music:
Thursday, April 23, 5:30pm to 7pm

On view: April 3 – May 2

 
For State Flower Ladies, June Bunch transforms 50 state flowers into botanical ballerinas. Her illustrations combine figure drawing with floral theatrics, adding elements of vibrant colors and texture-rich embroidery to her work. In an instant, her images stretch the viewer’s eye past the present to see the blossom’s full-seasonal vitality, summarized in one frozen motion. 
 
Bunch curates contemporary illustrations by studying plants’ “choreography” of growth, illuminating their dance with vibrant colors and clean lines. Her visual art remains rooted in botany and ballet, featuring postures that hold emotional richness, highlighting human nature and flora in a bold, empowering way.  
 
The art is created first through expressive figure drawings and botanical sketches that are then translated digitally and drawn line-by-line with a pen-tool, tending to each marking with thoughtful detail. 
 
To dive into the story behind each illustration, you can visit https://www.junebunch.com/illustration
 
About the artist:
 June Bunch (@junebunchstudio) is a self-taught illustrator from St. Petersburg, FL. Her art focuses on natural growth, interpreting plants’ movement through human body language. She studied botany and illustrated for plant nurseries before moving to Juneau, AK  as a naturalist guide. There, June grew inspired by the “choreography” of the natural world around her and humanized it, incorporating figure drawing paired with a love of dance.
 
Her work has won an honorable mention at the Morean Arts Center and has been on display at the Imagine Museum, Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Five Deuces Galleria, Art@400, The Werk Gallery, and the Gulf Coast Arts Alliance Gallery. She has recently been awarded a micro-grant from the Gobioff Foundation which sponsored a portion of the State Flower Ladies exhibition.
 

 

This exhibition includes illustrations of each state flower below:
 
AlabamaCamelliaCamellia japonica
AlaskaForget-me-notMyosotis alpestris
ArizonaSaguaro cactus blossomCarnegiea gigantea
ArkansasApple blossomMalus
CaliforniaCalifornia poppyEschscholzia californica
ColoradoColorado blue columbineAquilegia coerulea
ConnecticutMountain laurelKalmia latifolia
DelawarePeach blossomPrunus persica
FloridaOrange blossomCitrus sinensis
GeorgiaCherokee roseRosa laevigata
HawaiiHawaiian hibiscusHibiscus brackenridgei
IdahoSyringa, mock orangePhiladelphus lewisii
IllinoisVioletViola
IndianaPeonyPaeonia
IowaWild roseRosa arkansana
KansasSunflowerHelianthus annuus
KentuckyGoldenrodSolidago gigantea
LouisianaMagnoliaMagnolia
MaineWhite pine cone and tasselPinus strobus
MarylandBlack-eyed susanRudbeckia hirta
MassachusettsMayflowerEpigaea repens
MichiganApple blossomMalus
MinnesotaPink and white lady’s slipperCypripedium reginae
MississippiMagnoliaMagnolia
MissouriHawthornCrataegus
MontanaBitterrootLewisia rediviva
NebraskaGoldenrodSolidago gigantea
NevadaSagebrushArtemisia tridentata
New HampshirePurple lilacSyringa vulgaris
New JerseyVioletViola sororia
New MexicoYucca flowerYucca
New YorkRoseRosa
North CarolinadogwoodCornus florida
North DakotaWild prairie roseRosa blanda or arkansana
OhioScarlet carnationDianthus caryophyllus
OklahomaOklahoma roseRosa
OregonOregon grapeBerberis aquifolium
PennsylvaniaMountain laurelKalmia latifolia
Rhode IslandVioletViola
South CarolinaYellow jessamineGelsemium sempervirens
South DakotaPasque flowerPulsatilla hirsutissima
TennesseeIrisIris
TexasBluebonnet spp.Lupinus spp.
UtahSego lilyCalochortus nuttallii
VermontRed cloverTrifolium pratense
VirginiadogwoodCornus florida
WashingtonCoast rhododendronRhododendron macrophyllum
West VirginiaRhododendronRhododendron maximum
WisconsinWood violetViola papilionacea
WyomingIndian paintbrushCastilleja linariifolia