Maysey Craddock "Borderland"
Nancy Margolis Gallery
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The Nancy Margolis Gallery announces the season opening exhibition, featuring the work of Memphis artist Maysey Craddock. In her first solo exhibition in New York, Craddock will show large-scale gouache paintings on sewn paper bags and a found photograph installation. Her paintings, of silhouetted copses of trees, run-down buildings and outdoor spaces are tinged with the sometimes-melancholy memories of past events. Similarly, Craddock’s mixed media work, painting on found vintage photographs and postcards, creates a surreal filter over a captured image of what was.
For "Borderland" Craddock distances herself from pristine ‘art paper’ by using repurposed paper bags to act as canvases for her paintings. Working from photographic source material, Craddock paints on the flattened and torn bags, sewn together with silk thread. Sensuous and painterly washes of gouache ripple across the sculptural canvases, acting as a visual foil for the realistic silhouettes of knotted trees and derelict buildings. Craddock finds inspiration in places which once held treasured memories, buildings with forgotten legacies and lone trees that stood witness to unspoken events. In time, landscapes as well as memories are reclaimed by nature and layered with emotion and rich history.
Craddock will also exhibit vintage photographs and postcards, painted over with layers of gouache. This idea of the altered image, is the driving force behind Craddock’s work; by changing the visual properties of a preexisting image, she is able to expose the expressive history which it holds.
[Image: Maysey Craddock "the back of beyond" (2009)]
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Schedule
from September 10, 2009 to October 17, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-09-10 from 18:00 to 20:00