NYAB Event - Kathi Packer "Ngorongoro Passage"

Kathi Packer "Ngorongoro Passage"

First Street Gallery

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“I never intended for my safari trip in Africa to radically redirect my creative sensibilities. At the outset, it was simply a long anticipated voyage of discovery. It was only later in my studio, that I realized how profoundly this experience had affected me.”
--Kathi Packer
At first glance, Packer’s work portrays a common drama played out daily on the plains of Africa. Slowly, this perceived drama reveals a universal message of survival and vulnerability. Her new work explores the image of zebras in the wild but goes beyond mere visual description. Each image is a fragment of movement and time. These ephemeral postures could at once depict a falling, resting, dying or a joyously playful animal. The viewer doesn’t really know the beginning, middle or end of this choreography, nor the context. Similarly, the character of the landscape depicted creates a fluid atmosphere where dust and mist provide a delicate but ambiguous veil to the drama or joy of the moment.
[Image: Kathi Packer 2011 "Bakora #9" Oil on board 6x12 in.]

Media

• Painting
• Drawing

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