Creatures of Earth, Sea & Air

September 1 – 30, 2026

Throughout history, animals have been among the earliest subjects ever depicted by humans. Cave paintings like those in Lascaux and Chauvet (c. 30,000–15,000 BCE) show horses, bison, bulls, and deer depicted with astonishing sensitivity.
Across Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Mesoamerica, animals were inseparable from religion and cosmology.
The Renaissance shifted toward scientific observation: Leonardo da Vinci sketched horses and cats in anatomical studies with precision.

Impressionists and Post-Impressionists (Degas, Gauguin, Van Gogh) used animals symbolically or decoratively.

And today, animals and insects appear across nearly every medium and conceptual framework.
“Creatures of Earth, Sea & Air” and the selected 35 artists celebrate the astonishing diversity of the animal kingdom.