SARASOTA, FLA.- This summer, Selby Gardens presents an indoor and outdoor exhibition featuring the work of legendary American photographer, Lynn Goldsmith, who is renowned for both her celebrity portraits and fine art images. Goldsmith’s exhibition at the Downtown Sarasota campus combines stunning images of flowers with intimate portraits of Selby Gardens’ artist in residence – Patti Smith. The exhibition will be on view June 20 through September 13, 2026, at the Downtown Sarasota campus.

Over the past 50 years, Goldsmith’s photography has appeared on or between the covers of magazines including Life, Newsweek, Time, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, and many others. Her work is held in numerous private art collections and museums, including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Seventeen books have been produced of Goldsmith’s images, including Flower by Rizzoli in 2000 and Patti Smith: Before Easter After, published as a Deluxe Limited Edition by Taschen in 2019 and as a trade edition by Rizzoli in 2024.

Lynn Goldsmith remarked, “At Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, my photographs of flowers linger in that brief territory between bloom and surrender, where beauty is never separate from fragility. In the Museum, the portraits and moments beside them suggest that our relationships unfold much the same way as flowers do — reaching toward light, opening in trust, bruised by time, yet carrying an elegance that survives even in fading.”





Selby Gardens’ President & CEO, Jennifer Rominiecki, commented, “We are thrilled to welcome Lynn Goldsmith’s extraordinary work to Selby Gardens this summer. This exhibition beautifully bridges the worlds of fine art, music, and nature through Goldsmith’s evocative floral imagery and her personal portraits of Patti Smith, our artist in residence. Together, these works create a powerful dialogue about creativity, connection, and inspiration that we believe will resonate with our visitors in the immersive setting of our Downtown Sarasota campus.”