This exhibition will be temporarily closed Oct 4 through 27 for the installation of a new wall mural. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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 and Renaissance tapestries, French decorative arts, mythology, and sustained observation of plant life. The exhibition marks the first major U.S. museum presentation of Riehl’s work and underscoring MAD’s commitment to contemporary craft and material innovation.