On the Gulf Coast, we are intimately and inextricably bound to our landscapes. It cradles us, protects us, dazzles us, nourishes us, challenges us, and shatters us– only to renew us again.

Emma Fick was born and raised in South Louisiana, explores her love for and deference to a natural world that envelops us in its damp arms one day and lays waste to us the next: Verdant Embrace gives visual language to Louisiana’s powerful siren song, situating the viewer in the uneasy space of being lured in by an abiding presence that, like a god, contains generative and destructive power in equal measure.

Featuring all new works– notably her debut wallpaper design, a tangle of plants that soars up the 14-foot walls– Verdant Embrace is a visual celebration of our native flora, in which plants multiply, seeding inspiration across media and dimensions. From paintings to wallpaper, light-boxes to mobiles, ceramics to jewelry, enter this abundant universe to be held by our precious, and sometimes overwhelming, Louisiana landscape.