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Solo Exhibition 2016 'Vital Connections', Gallery d'Arte, NYC 2016 'World Trees', 107 West, NYC 2015 'Life Before Life', CREON Gallery, NYC, 2013 'Peopled Forest of My Mind', CREON Gallery, NYC 2011 'Entwined', CREON Gallery, NYC 2009 'Icons', CREON Gallery, NYC 2006 'World Tree Series-Drawings', ROGER Smith Arts, NYC
Hrbacek is a visual artist who began closely observing trees in their diverse manifestations in 1994, when she began to make daily drawings in Riverside Park and also worked from live models in a drawing class at the Art Students League, NY. One day her vision changed; the human physique and tree limbs merged in her psyche as she realized the similarities between human anatomical features and the bio-forms and limbs of trees that mirror them. Since then, a number of articles have appeared that investigate trees’ network of bonds in the natural world. Evidently, trees emit chemical signals that warn other trees of danger; they shift to make way for closely growing trees to receive unblocked sunlight. At her summer place in Vermont Hrbacek has observed how flowers and trees migrate when their current space becomes too crowded.