Azalea was supposed to live in the Peninsularium, but when that didn’t happen due to a lack of funding, the art project found a new, temporary home at the Dunedin Fine Art Center this summer. Mitzi Jo Gordan, Emily Stone, Kym O’Donnell and Joe Griffith’s gallery-size installation created a magical Florida forest within DFAC where cypress knees have teeth, trees come laden with protective evil eye talismans, and images of Florida forests combine to form an abstracted woodland environment. mitzijogordon.com—Jennifer Ring
This article appears in Best of The Bay 2024.
