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The Cummer Museum’s Bank of America Concourse Gallery
What Remains
Tuesday, April 07, 2026 to Sunday, October 11, 2026
ASHLEY WOODSON BAILEY: WHAT REMAINS
The Cummer Museum’s Bank of America Concourse Gallery welcomes Jacksonville-based photographer and artist Ashley Woodson Bailey with What Remains. This body of work explores the relationship between photography, time, and preservation through the botanical subject.
“Flowers have long functioned as a visual language in art, symbolizing beauty, mortality, and transformation,” Bailey shares. “I am drawn to the tension between fragility and permanence—how something inherently fleeting can be held, altered, and re-seen.”
In What Remains, floral photographs are presented alongside translucent grasscloth panels, shifting wallpaper from decorative surface into something closer to a preserved specimen. The photographs function as both record and memory, while the textile panels emphasize physical presence, moving the work between image and object.
In dialogue with Moment in Time, A Legacy of Photographs and Art in Bloom, What Remains reflects on how artists attempt to hold onto beauty and how every act of preservation inevitably transforms what it seeks to save.
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About
The Artist. Founder. Creative Director.
Ashley Woodson Bailey
Ashley Woodson Bailey is an artist and photographer whose work begins in the garden — specifically in what most people would throw away. Flowers at their peak were never her subject. Flowers on the turn, bowing into decay, surrendering pigment at the edge of a petal — that's where she worked.
After a devastating car accident, she spent her recovery documenting flowers through their entire lifecycle. That practice became Florography. It became a body of work. It became the visual DNA of everything AWB makes.
Her work has been featured in House Beautiful, Elle Decor, The Wall Street Journal, Flower Magazine, and PaperCity. She has collaborated with CB2 and Kohler. She wrapped her own bedroom in her wallpaper. She lives inside the work.
