After Flowers, by Patrick Costello

May 31 to August 16, 2025

About the exhibit

After Flowers, an installation by Patrick Costello, combines images and sculptures that consider composting as a framework for reckoning with the questions of inheritance. The pieces draw upon Costello’s experience working in New York City community gardens—liminal zones that challenge binary understandings of nature and culture. In his practice, he uses time-based mediums to explore the impacts of history on present ecologies, and gives specific attention to the fraught interplay of care and control within multispecies relationships.

About the artist

Patrick Costello is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in time-based mediums including installation and performance. His practice explores the impacts of history on present ecologies – giving specific attention to gardens and the contentious relationships of care and control that define them. In 2024, Patrick received a MacDowell Fellowship and served as the Artist-in-Residence at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. He has exhibited work at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY; and Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Cazenovia, NY. He has performed in venues including Ars Nova, New York, NY; The Philadelphia Museum of Art; and The Public Theater, New York, NY.