Tiffanie Turner

About the artist:

Tiffanie Turner received her Bachelor of Architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and worked as an architect for over fifteen years before beginning her career as a botanical sculptor. She was the recipient of the Pirkle Jones Fund Visual Artist Support Program Grant and received a Zellerbach Family Grant award to support her work as an artist-in residence at the de Young Museum in San Francisco.

Turner has had solo exhibitions at the Kimball Gallery at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Tower Hill Botanical Garden in Boylston, MA; Rare Device in San Francisco; and Eleanor Harwood Gallery in San Francisco. Her work is exhibited in museums and galleries across the United States, and featured in The New York Times, The New York Times T Magazine and the NYT Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, Sunset Magazine, Vogue, American Craft Magazine, O Magazine, Phaidon Press’s “Flower”, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others.

Artwork in exhibition:

Tiffanie Turner, Orchid Vignette, 21st Century, 2020, German crepe paper, glue, wire, floral tape, stain, chalk, ribbon, 17 in. x 24 1/2 in. x 18 in., Courtesy of the artist and Eleanor Harwood Gallery