Organica: Flora to Fauna Opens at the Granger Hotel

The Granger Hotel has a new exhibition worth seeking out. Organica: Flora to Fauna brings together fourteen regional artists from Southern California and across the border, curated by Jennifer Findley, Director of Arts and Culture at Oram Hotels and founder of JFiN Collective.

The works are installed across the hotel’s salon, lobby, and art studio, turning the whole space into an immersive experience.

Where Plant, Animal, and Human Life Converge

The exhibition spans painting, sculpture, installation, and mixed media, and the thread running through all of it is the boundary – or rather the blurring of it – between plant, animal, and human life. Photorealist animal studies sit alongside speculative botanical ecologies, fungal networks, and nocturnal habitats.

It’s a show about coexistence and the natural world on its own terms, and it asks you to consider where exactly the human body fits within all of it.

Part of a Larger Conversation

Organica continues the Granger Art Program’s ongoing dialogue with artists exploring ecological and speculative inquiry, including an art-in-residence initiative with Max Hooper Schneider – the first emerging artist commissioned for UC San Diego’s Stuart Collection – whose work engages future ecologies and evolving life systems.

The Voices Behind the Work

The exhibition draws from a diverse range of practices across Southern California and beyond, united by a shared curiosity about the natural world and our place within it.