Admit It, 2023
- Permanent Collection
Classic Wing, The Drake Hotel
Suspended Flora, 2020 – 2022
Permanent Collection
7 Inflatable Mushrooms
Slovak-Canadian artist Nicole Beno’s Suspended Flora features bold, whimsical mushrooms, playfully perched atop the Glass Box and along the waterfront in the summer months. Composed of inflatable mushroom shapes and printed with eye-catching, fantastical patterns, the art piece began as an ongoing study during the pandemic, when picking wildflowers from the alleys and corners of her neighbourhood became the artist’s ritual, and a way of "documenting and capturing the fleeting beauty of change." The wildflowers were then scanned, distorted and collaged into new worlds caught between imagination and reality. Learn more about Nicole’s art process, inspiration, and the unique way she combines analog and digital art in our interview with her now.
