Maysey Craddock Exhibition
Nancy Margolis Gallery
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Craddock’s studio, located in downtown Memphis in an old medicine factory at the end of a dead end street, surrounds her in traces of long gone industry and crumbling walls of buildings near old railroad tracks. Craddock uses photographs of the deteriorating landscape around her as the starting point and inspiration. Captivated and surprised by the beauty in these environments, she translates her impression into beautiful abstract paintings.
As her canvas she paints on recycled grocery bags sewn together with silk thread. This common material, often stained and ragged, has an interesting surface texture which adds to the feeling and emotion expressed in her images. The everyday, used quality of the brown paper bags gives her work a distinct character emphasizing the once new and discarded quality her images of urban wilderness portray.
Her images of old dilapidated buildings crumbling into the dirt are the crossroads between culture’s traces and nature’s reclamation. Expressing her own interpretation of these particular landscapes Craddock shows how our physical world reflects not only the present lives we live but the memories of the remains of the past.
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Schedule
from September 08, 2011 to October 15, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-09-08 from 18:00 to 20:00