Touching Grass

Cameron Cameron Ryan Flores Benedict Scheuer Pallavi Sen North Loop West is delighted to present Touching Grass, an exhibition featuring four artists who explore human relationships with the natural world. In sculpture by Cameron Cameron, ceramics by Ryan Flores, paintings on silk by Benedict Scheuer, and wax pastel drawings by Pallavi Sen, nature emerges as teacher, metaphor, and source of personal and cultural meaning. Through distinct approaches, these artists conjure the natural world as a dynamic ground for relation and knowledge—one that invites acts of attention, creativity, and care. Ryan Flores renders flora encountered on walks around Los Angeles in intricately detailed ceramics. Upon close looking, these seductively realist, verdant forms reveal signs of rot and decay—echoing time’s inevitable effects on living matter. Cameron Cameron reclaims discarded materials from her studio and the streets of LA, and transforms them with an ethics of deliberation and slowness that resists the accelerations of modern life. Pallavi Sen and Benedict Scheuer both turn to the garden as a space of aesthetic inspiration, wonder, and multi-species collaboration. In richly colored wax pastel drawings, Sen depicts imagined scenes rooted in the garden she currently tends alongside her students in Northwestern Massachusetts. At their home studio, Scheuer paints on silk beside their own garden, evoking the living patterns and quiet gestures of the plants they nurture each day. Across all four practices, nature is explored not as an abstract or distant ideal, but as a site of mutualism and multi-species cohabitation.