Ann Craven, most famous for her seductive bird monikers and reproductive chicanery, will be painting flowers here. By no means backing down from her aggressively conceptual repetitive strategy (her 2004 solo at Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Inc. a direct copy of her 2002 show there – but bigger), Craven carefully plays on Minimalist tactics yet manages so willfully to shatter open Minimalism’s “frigid little heart” with paintings so unabashedly beautiful and heart wrenching it seems impossible to break free from their aura.

Exhibiting broadly in the United States and recently in Europe, Ann Craven has been reviewed and featured in such publications as Artforum, Frieze, ArtNews, Art in America, Tema Celeste, the New Yorker and the New York Times, to cite from a lengthy list. Recently, Craven mounted her first solo exhibition in Milan at Paolo Curti/Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co., garnering numerous revues and features from many prominent European publications. Her work is included in the Permanent Collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Miami. In April, concurrent with the HSNY exhibition, Craven’s paintings will be on view at the Angstrom Gallery in Dallas, Texas. In addition, Craven will be a featured artist in the April 2005 issue of Modern Painters, published in tandem with her show at the Horticultural Society of New York. This publication will be available for gallery visitors.