October 21, 2026 – January 10, 2027

In Full Bloom: Flowers in the Garden – Pressed Flower Collage Portraits by Artist in Residence Bruce Helander

Bruce Helander will serve as Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens’ seventh Artist in Residence for 2026/2027, creating a series of pressed flower collage portraits inspired by Palm Beach personalities and historical and cultural figures. The works on view also will include two of the most famous portraits of women in history embellished in blooms: Mona Lisa (Leonardo da Vinci) and Marilyn Monroe (Andy Warhol), as well as two of the most prominent women in Palm Beach history, Marjorie Merriweather Post and Jacqueline Kennedy.

Each collage portrait is carefully crafted using pressed, dried flowers and floral imagery.

Helander’s work is represented in 53 museum permanent collections, including the Norton Museum of Art, which holds 27 of his collages. His work also is in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Institution and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, among others. His distinguished credentials include induction into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, one of only four lifetime recipients from Palm Beach, alongside Ralph Hubbard Norton, Jimmy Buffett, and Laura Woodward. He is also a former White House Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, earned a master’s degree in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, and has studied at Harvard University and Yale University. Helander is also the author of Flower Power – The Paintings of Carol Calicchio.