We are pleased to invite you to the group exhibition Mostly Thorns, featuring work by Hiroshi Clark, Lauren Goldenberg Longoria, and Liz Stringer. The exhibition will be on view from September 15 through October 5, 2025, with a reception weekend between Saturday, 9/27 and Sunday, 9/28, open 11am-6 pm daily.  The exhibition will occur at the UCI Nature Burns Piñion Ridge Reserve, near Pioneertown, California, unceded Serrano and Cahuilla territory. Historically, this UC Irvine research site is home to ecological study and preservation of the very specific flora and fauna that meet at this site: the Transverse Range, Sonoran Desert, and the Mojave Desert. Acknowledging that art is research and process-driven, the exhibition aims to have both art and ecological study happening concurrently on the reserve site. All three artists had a hand in transforming the Burns Piñion Ridge Reserve’s Workshop into an arts space that can hold residencies and art exhibitions. Mostly Thorns is the debut exhibition in his newly transformed space. Mostly Thorns—is an exhibition loosely assembled under the ‘The Rose, Bud, Thorn’ framework—an exercise reflecting on three aspects of an experience: a Rose (a highlight, success, or positive moment), a Bud (a potential for growth, or something to look forward to), and a Thorn (a challenge, disappointment, or area needing improvement). When applied to each participating artist, this exercise examines the fraught intersection between materialism and the psychological terrains of various bodies (architectural, human, environmental). The work in this exhibition intersects through diverse strategies of making as each artist examines the friction between damage and repair occurring within various states of transformation and growth.