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Exhibit Catalogs

Click on the thumbnail images below to open the full PDF exhibit catalogs, where you can read more about the theme and view the artwork included in the exhibit.

Additional Past Exhibits

The Art of Symbiosis

Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts

5 McLallen St, Trumansburg NY 14886

April 6, 2024 - May 10, 2024

Opening Reception April 6, 2024 from 4-6pm

The natural world has evolved over billions of years by developing extraordinary relationships between different species and populations. These symbiotic relationships, both cooperative and destructive, demonstrate the importance of long-term partnerships for a healthy ecosystem. From mysterious microscopic organisms to amazing plant life, insects, and large mammals including humans, many species' survival is interdependent on one another. 

  

We invite you to view an exhibition featuring works by the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators - Finger Lakes Chapter. The exhibition brings art and science together to help us understand the importance of interconnectivity and how better-informed decisions will help address the challenges of biodiversity loss, food insecurity and environmental conservation. 

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The Art of Symbiosis

Mann Library Gallery

Cornell University

September 5, 2023 - January 15, 2024

The natural world has evolved over billions of years by developing extraordinary relationships between different species and populations. These symbiotic relationships, both cooperative and destructive, demonstrate the importance of long-term partnerships for a healthy ecosystem. From mysterious microscopic organisms to amazing plant life, insects, and large mammals including humans, many species' survival is interdependent on one another. 

  

This exhibit brought art and science together to help us understand the importance of interconnectivity and how better-informed decisions will help address the challenges of biodiversity loss, food insecurity and environmental conservation. 

poster design: Jenny Leijonhufvud (c) 2023

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Drawn to the Water: Life In and Around the Waters of the Finger Lakes

Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts

March 20 - May 21, 2021

The Finger Lakes region, sculpted by glaciers beginning two million years ago, is an area with an abundance of water. Creeks, ponds, marshes, vernal pools, springs, the Finger Lakes themselves, are home to thousands of living beings. For this exhibit, the members of the Finger Lakes Chapter of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators chose to depict some of the many animals and plants dependent on the waters that form these ecosystems. 

GNSI Finger Lakes Members Show

Trumansburg Conservatory of Fine Arts

5 McLallen Street, Trumansburg, NY 14886

February 22 - April 4, 2020

This show featured diverse works from group members in a variety of media. 

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Worth a Thousand Words: The How and Why of Scientific Illustration

Mann Library, 2nd floor, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

February 2 - March 31, 2019

Our quest for knowledge about the natural world is an intrinsic part of our humanity.  From the first cave-paintings to the most advanced computer illustrations of today, art has served to clarify and codify our scientific knowledge. Scientific illustrators translate complex facts into pictures, creating images that aid in the understanding of science and nature. With this new winter exhibit at Mann Library, we invite you to come inside from the cold to enjoy the world of science and art, featuring pieces by the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators - Finger Lakes Chapter.

poster design: Jenny Leijonhufvud (c) 2019

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Marsh Madness

We presented our illustrations of the flora and fauna of New York State Wetlands in our exhibition, Marsh Madness.  Our art was accompanied by Daniel Elswits's photographs of wetlands in Upstate NY and the Adirondacks.  This travelling exhibition was  on view during 2013 and 2014 at the Cumming Nature Center in Naples, NY; the Cornell Lab of Ornithology; the Community School of Music and Art in Ithaca, NY; the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge; Lime Hollow Nature Preserve in Cortland, NY, and Kendal of Ithaca (NY).  

painting at right:  "Skunk Cabbage" by Gretchen Halpert, (c) 2013

The Sweet Voiced Bird Has Flown: Portraits of Common Birds in Decline

A Project of the Finger Lakes Chapter of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators in collaboration with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology 2009-2010.  

See our paintings at http://www.margynelson.com/common-birds-home.html

painting at right: "Eastern meadowlark" by Camille Doucet, (c) 2009

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