Alice Riehl’s Porcelain Florilegium

Fragile, luminous, and enduring, porcelain becomes a medium for rethinking plant life in the modern city in Alice Riehl’s Porcelain Florilegium, an installation of the artist’s large-scale porcelain wall murals inspired by botanical imagery drawn from medieval tapestries, French decorative arts, mythology, and sustained observation of plant life.

The first major U.S. museum presentation of Riehl’s work, this exhibition underscores MAD’s commitment to contemporary craft and material innovation.