These days, artist Cj Hendry is as much known for her innovative and fun exhibition staging as her hyperrealistic drawings, with shows staged as giant soft-play castles with ballpits and inflatable swimming pools in the desert. For her latest collection, she’s launching a flower market on New York’s Roosevelt Island.

Hendry has teamed up with beauty brand Clé de Peau Beauté and the Four Freedoms Park Conservancy for Flower Market, which will be staged inside a 120-ft-long greenhouse built on the lawn of the FDR Four Freedoms State Park.

‘When the architect Louis Kahn designed this memorial, he said, “The garden is somehow a personal kind of control of nature,”’ says Hendry. ‘A lot of my work, and in this exhibition especially, is about manipulating my environments and building a space that takes participants out of their ordinary. I hope Flower Market inspires joy and beauty well after the greenhouse is empty every time we see flowers – plush or otherwise.’

Open for just two days on 13-15 September, the free, ticketed show will fill the greenhouse with 100,000 plush flowers inspired by the Clé de Peau Beaute collection. Boxes inside the greenhouse are brimming with radiant lilies, red and yellow roses, sunflowers, tulips and peonies, just like a real flower market, but unlike their natural counterparts, Hendry’s flowers won’t wilt after a few days.

Visitors to the show can actively ‘pick’ their own free plush flower keepsake and enjoy a dozen of Hendry’s original hyperrealist floral drawings on display (though they’ll only be available to purchase by her existing collectors). Register online for free tickets.

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