So Long, The Garden features new paintings by Portland artist Bianca Youngers, whose lush, immersive abstractions imagine botanical worlds independent of physical reality. These works portray gardens not as places of order or cultivation but as emotional landscapes—spaces of refuge, memory, and transformation. Color bursts, forms dissolve, and layered marks create dreamlike scenes that feel both intimate and vast.

Youngers’ approach is highly intuitive. Each piece begins with a softly colored background that draws the viewer in, layered with dense gestures and symbols. Names, ideas, and fleeting impressions are embedded beneath the surface, like roots in soil. The paintings grow naturally, guided by sensation, music, and the quiet rhythms of daily life.

In So Long, The Garden, the garden becomes a symbol of something left behind or internalized. These works suggest a departure from the familiar and an invitation to a different space, one where the body softens, time distorts, and beauty exists beyond pain. What remains is not loss but potential, an opening to wonder, play, and the unknown.