Here, I’ll even quote my press release for you:
Gallery Apodaca presents new photographs by Los Angeles-based photographer Bonnie Hawthorne. The series, entitled “They Bloom in June Gloom: an Appreciation of the Mighty Jacaranda,” features 20 photographs of the stunning trees that brighten Southern California with their purple blossoms every spring.
Jacaranda trees were a horticultural trend in Southern California in the 1920s and ‘30s. Thriving despite little attention from humans, stately Jacarandas are now found in abandoned lots and in rundown, formerly fashionable neighborhoods. It is this contrast of beauty amid decay that inspired this series of photographs.
Though currently living in Los Angeles, Bonnie Hawthorne has ties to the Monterey Peninsula. Her last exhibit of photographs at the Pacific Grove Art Center in 1981 was entitled “ViewMasters: Portable Realities for a Perfect Vacation.” Since then she has lived in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and is again in Los Angeles.
