Complementary Greens is an outdoor installation that interplays a transparent green vinyl panel with repurposed transparent red CD cases sourced from MaterialsForTheArts.org. This work not only utilizes the complementary colors green and red, but also conceptually complements the gallery's concurrent indoor exhibition referencing the color green.

As an artist who has curated for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden's 2023 show "Branching Out" and served 10 years as High Line gardener volunteer, André is familiar with the unpredictable nature of outdoor spaces, as compared to controlled interior environments. This piece embraces the shifting dimensions and conditions of the external gallery grounds.

The interplay of daylight filtering through the layered colored vinyl and CD cases and reflecting off the the iridescent clear CDs, creates an immersive display as shadows and light shift throughout the day. The translucent materials interact with the environment, reflecting the dynamic sky and taking on the hues of the installation's surroundings.

Cecilia André is a Brazilian visual artist based in New York. 

She works by sewing and producing installations that filter sunlight in outdoor spaces or by recycling reused materials to capture and transform ambient light,  changing the way we perceive the original objects. 

Selected to two residencies for site-specific outdoor projects in Brazil, Cecilia has been an AnkhLave Garden Project fellow in 2020 showing transparent immersive installations at Queens Botanical Garden outdoors and in their gallery. Since 2021 Cecilia has become the curator for AnkhLave Arts Alliance. In 2022  Cecilia received a 4 month sole art residency and art show at Materials for the Arts in LIC. She curated the show"Branching Out," a 6 BIPOC outdoors sculptor show at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. She is currently the curator of the show DNA Garden at BronxArtSpace on view until April 6th.