Jane Irish: Antipodes, Works from the Installation at Lemon Hill Mansion

Working in partnership with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, Fairmount Park Conservancy, and the Friends of Lemon Hill, Jane Irish transformed the historic Lemon Hill mansion, filling it with a floor-to-ceiling installation of paintings and ceramics. Irish envisions that the two floors of Lemon Hill will serve as antipodes—hemispheric opposites, each filled with her dialectical imagery of past and present, east and west, and war and peace. Its interiors coated with Irish’s swirls of painted vignettes, Lemon Hill was a site where visitors consider how activists might serve as an antidote for past sins, and art’s ability to foresee the wildest scientific futures.