Review

BRANCHING OUT

A tree is a forked system: borne from a single trunk, its branches and twigs can extend in all directions, far from the root of its origins. The exhibition currently on view in the central court at the Spencer Museum of Art plays with this concept of growth systems in alternately scientific, profound, and humorous ways. Taking as its common beginning the form of the tree, the works in the show explore themes extending to the outer reaches of natural beauty and human knowledge.