Heather Lee Birdsong

Russo Lee Gallery is pleased to announce Forgetting and Remembering, a new exhibition of paintings by invited artist Heather Lee Birdsong. This body of work explores deeply personal and universal themes—grief, memory, climate anxiety, and displacement—through a striking visual language that blends observed plants and real landscapes with imagined, dreamlike spaces. Birdsong works in flat, largely opaque materials including Flashe, gouache, and charcoal powder, creating images with crisp lines and a plausible-but-unreal quality. Several works take their titles from texts by Bethany C. Morrow, Pablo Neruda, and John Cage, whose ideas resonated with Birdsong's process. Together, these paintings offer not answers, but quiet, luminous questions about what it means to be human, to remember, and to make a home in an uncertain world.