Join ArtTable for a Curator-Led Tour of Jessica Lichtenstein: Rewilding with Elissa Auther.
The exhibition will transform the Museum’s third-floor gallery into a lush, overgrown terrain, where thousands of digitally rendered female nudes coalesce into forests, ruins, and flowering canopies. A multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans large-scale installation, painting, sculpture, and video, Lichtenstein’s densely layered, technicolor landscapes are erotically charged, feminist reimaginings of nature and the female form.
The exhibition borrows its title from a concept in conservation ecology known as “rewilding.” In practice, “rewilding” restores natural processes and wilderness areas by withdrawing human intervention and trusting ecosystems to regenerate on their own terms. For Lichtenstein, rewilding serves as a governing metaphor for liberty and release. Merging opulent materials with technological precision, Lichtenstein reclaims the female body from art history’s erotic conventions and situates it within a speculative landscape shaped by autonomy and collectivity, unfettered by patriarchy or even the presence of the male figure.
Elissa Auther is the Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs and William and Mildred Lasdon Chief Curator at MAD.
