Annie Shaver-Crandell "Speaking Likenesses: Portraits of Cats and Dogs"
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Although the portraits in "Speaking Likenesses" is the first group of animal images Shaver-Crandell has shown in a gallery setting, she has been engaged artistically with animals from earliest childhood. By age 4, she had exhausted all her green crayons providing pastures for the horses she drew constantly, and had to master mixing yellows and blues. At 5, she got into serious trouble for crayoning on her parents' bedroom wallpaper during a bout of chickenpox. At 10, she negotiated permission to decorate her own bedroom wall with four panels of running horses. At 26, shortly after adding a flower-wielding lion to a neighborhood peace mural on a Chelsea wall, she made the acquaintance of the man whom she later married, who greatly disliked dogs but reluctantly agreed to her desire to keep a 20-year succession of pet cats, whom she photographed regularly.
During her first career, as an art historian, Shaver-Crandell became fascinated by portraiture of all kinds, with a special fondness for those Dutch, Spanish and French images in which a specific moment evokes an entire life. In her current career, as a painter, she has concentrated until recently on other categories of subject matter, especially landscape and still life, in which capturing an essence at a transient moment has been facilitated by the inherent immobility of the subject under scrutiny. With this exhibition, she has created for herself the challenging task of portraying subjects whose natural condition is anything but holding still, while attempting to capture their personal dignity and charm.
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from May 05, 2011 to May 14, 2011
Closing Reception on 2011-05-13 from 14:00 to 17:00