Art Exhibits
Enjoy art inspired by both nature and the human experience of life in the world at The Green Center. Exhibits are free and open to the public throughout the year. Proceeds of art exhibit sales support The Green Center's youth arts programs!
Contact us if you have nature inspired artwork that you would like to display at The Green Center!
Contact us if you have nature inspired artwork that you would like to display at The Green Center!
Save the dates for our Upcoming Exhibits:
September 17-October 18: "Sacred Forest" featuring jewelry artists Allison Bruenger, Alison Bozarth & Anne Morgan
November 1-December 20: The Green Center Artists
Purple Lemon Photography by Nikki Dukes
On exhibit August 13-September 6, 2024
Opening Reception: Tuesday, August 13 4:00-7:00pm
Artist Biography
Nikki Dukes has been living and photographing in Saint Louis for the last twenty years. Though primarily a wedding and portrait photographer, she has been making photographic artwork since childhood. She became a professional portrait photographer during college, and, in 2012, became one of few Certified Professional Photographers in Missouri. She has continued to love creating art both as she experiences daily life and throughout her travels, both near and far. Much of her collection showcases her home in Saint Louis, but some pieces also highlight her time in Europe, the United Kingdom, and Ghana.
Her favorite part of being a photographer is how it allows her to be outdoors during much of the time when she is working and creating. She often finds beauty in the contrast between the natural and constructed worlds around her. She notices colors of water, flowers, or trees in architecture and the ways nature is re-taking its place in the cracks and crevices of the urban landscape.
In addition to her photography, Nikki has recently been re-exploring painting again after setting down her brushes for a while early in parenthood. Health issues have prevented her from much of the photography she had grown accustomed to, and yet her ache to create has persisted. She has studied plants in-depth over the last few years and now explores both realistic and impressions of plant life around her, specifically plants native to Missouri and those around her home.
Nikki Dukes has been living and photographing in Saint Louis for the last twenty years. Though primarily a wedding and portrait photographer, she has been making photographic artwork since childhood. She became a professional portrait photographer during college, and, in 2012, became one of few Certified Professional Photographers in Missouri. She has continued to love creating art both as she experiences daily life and throughout her travels, both near and far. Much of her collection showcases her home in Saint Louis, but some pieces also highlight her time in Europe, the United Kingdom, and Ghana.
Her favorite part of being a photographer is how it allows her to be outdoors during much of the time when she is working and creating. She often finds beauty in the contrast between the natural and constructed worlds around her. She notices colors of water, flowers, or trees in architecture and the ways nature is re-taking its place in the cracks and crevices of the urban landscape.
In addition to her photography, Nikki has recently been re-exploring painting again after setting down her brushes for a while early in parenthood. Health issues have prevented her from much of the photography she had grown accustomed to, and yet her ache to create has persisted. She has studied plants in-depth over the last few years and now explores both realistic and impressions of plant life around her, specifically plants native to Missouri and those around her home.
Past Art Exhibits
- Webster Groves Nature Study Society Photo Competition, 2015
- 20 Years Celebrating Nature & the Environment through Photography, 2015
- An Enchanted World- Just Add Watercolor: Cocoa, Coffee, Sunflowers and Butterflies by Dina Fachin, 2016
- "A Peek Inside the Artist's Sketchbook" by Hilarie Hunt, 2016
- "In the Garden" by Terri Shay, 2017
- Portraits of Courage, Phyllis MacLaren, 2017
- Vermilion in Tooth and Claw, Winners of the Webster Groves Nature Study Society Natural History Photography Contest, 2017
- "The World, Two Wheels & A Sketchbook" by Sophie Binder, 2017
- "Birds" by Jeff Kapfer, 2018
- "A Journey In Abstraction" by Jane Miles, 2018
- Artwork by Jeffrey Sippel, 2018
- "Flowers for the Garden" by Amber Donlan, 2019
- UCity In Bloom Plein Air Contest Winners-Various artists and students from the School District of University City, 2019
- "Patty Sheppard Ceramics" by Patty M Sheppard, 2021
- "Pen and Ink" by Gary Gackstatter, 2022
- "Native Flora & Fauna of the Midwest in Watercolor" By Catherine Hu, 2022
- "Sprung" by Nancy Thias, 2023
- "May Daze" by Nancy Kane Chapman, 2023
- "The Collections; 'Eggs is a Metaphor,' 'Flower Power' & 'Animal Whimsy" by Catherine Vangoeke, 2023
- "Quarantine Days and Beyond- Daily Sketches" by Sophie Binder, 2023
- "Florals Up Close" by Linda Lee Layton, 2023
- "Art Show" by E.J. Thias, 2023
- "Linda Sachs Designs and Pottery by Guy Sachs," 2023
- "Embracing Nature, Uplifting Ourselves" by Yulia S Buss, 2024
- "My Favorite Animal: Explorations of Animals Through Light, Sound and Art Media"
by The Children of Pride 8 at the Julia Goldstein Early Childhood Education Center, 2024 - Webster Groves Nature Study Society Photographers, 2024