--- title: 2018_Sam Van Aken Open Orchard Announcement date: 2018-06-04T16:15:50-04:00 author: Cat Zhou canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2018/2018-sam-van-aken-open-orchard-announcement" section: News --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/fredric-riskin-1) [ Richard Ross ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/richard-ross) S [ Diemut Strebe ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/diemut-strebe) [ Edwin Schlossberg ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/edwin-schlossberg) [ Federico Solmi ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/federico-solmi-) [ Jason Salavon ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/jason-salavon) [ Todd Siler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/todd-siler) U [ Mierle Laderman Ukeles ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) V [ Sam Van Aken ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) W [ Allan Wexler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [ Andy Warhol ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/andy-warhol) [ Clemens Weiss ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/clemens-weiss) [ Hannah Wilke ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) Y [ Gil Yefman ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) [Sam Van Aken](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) Sam Van Aken: Open Orchard News Jun 06, 2018 SAM VAN AKEN // OPEN ORCHARD JUNE 7 - AUGUST 25, 2018 OPENING RECEPTION: JUNE 7, 2018 Exhibiting artist-in-residence [Sam Van Aken’s](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) ongoing project, *The Open Orchard*, turns the first-floor gallery at McColl Center for Art + Innovation into a studio and workshop where the artist will preserve heirloom and antique fruit varieties before they disappear. Included are Van Aken’s botanical illustrations and descriptions of centuries old fruit; tree stumps taken from old heirloom orchards that show the transition at the juncture of graft and trunk; herbarium specimens of pressed branches and flowers; and peach “wands” collected during the solar eclipse on August 21, 2017, suspended from the ceiling. In turning the gallery into a workspace, Van Aken invites the community to participate in, learn, and, subsequently, teach the process of printing and hand-coloring botanical illustrations, creating herbarium specimens, and cooking dishes based on these fruits. This experiential setting is simultaneously aesthetic, community-based, educational, research-oriented, and, ultimately, a form of conservation that attempts to address threats to food security and loss of diversity, preserving not just agriculture but the culture that surrounds these increasingly forgotten fruits. Evolving out of Van Aken’s *Tree of 40 Fruit* project, in which heirloom orchards were preserved by collapsing them onto a single tree through the process of grafting, *The Open Orchard* attempts to “explode” the *Tree of 40 Fruit* project by placing these antique fruits back onto individual trees and making them available to the public. **[For more information please go here](http://mccollcenter.org/events/the-open-orchard/217)** Related News & Press Jul 22, 2015 [ ![Van Aken Nichols Plum](/assets/exhibition_images/Huang/Van-Aken-Nichols-Plum.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2015-van-aken-observer) Jul 22, 2015 Observer [Sam Van Aken](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) [Artist Made a Frankentree That Bears 40 Different Fruits](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2015-van-aken-observer) Jan 13, 2015 [ ![Fantasia](/assets/exhibition_images/Van-Aken/Fantasia.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2015-van-aken-smithsonian) Jan 13, 2015 The Smithsonian [Sam Van Aken](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) [A Tree Grows 40 Different Types of Fruit](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2015-van-aken-smithsonian) Apr 27, 2017 [ ![Van Aken Tree Of 40 Fruit](/assets/exhibition_images/Van-Aken/Van-Aken-Tree-of-40-Fruit.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-van-aken-observer-dispatch) Apr 27, 2017 The Observer-Dispatch [Sam Van Aken](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) [A Tree Grows in Utica - with 40 Different Fruits](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-van-aken-observer-dispatch) Jul 23, 2014 [ ![Early Gold Plum](/assets/exhibition_images/Van-Aken/Early-Gold-Plum.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2014-van-aken-huffington-post) Jul 23, 2014 Huffington Post [Sam Van Aken](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) [Tree Grows 40 Different Types Of Fruit, Probably From The Future](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2014-van-aken-huffington-post) [See All Press ](https://feldmangallery.com/news_overview) Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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