The smell of freshly prepared food mingles with chatter from students and faculty taking a break from academics in One World Café, UB’s international eatery and gathering spot. But one floor above the hustle and bustle, adjacent to a seating area, visitors find something unexpected: walls adorned with strikingly beautiful botanical illustrations on glass.
This isn’t just artwork. “Inhabit” is a dialogue between art and nature crafted by UB faculty member Joan Linder.
Linder, professor in the Department of Art, is committed to “slow looking,” a process that uses drawing as a form of meditation, rather than something that attracts only a cursory glance. She is known for making large-scale conceptual and observational drawings with thousands — if not hundreds of thousands — of marks. Her works have been exhibited in Europe and throughout the United States, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the AKG Art Museum here in Buffalo.
