Patricia Traub “Animal Empathy”

Gallery Henoch

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“Patricia Traub’s harmonious menagerie echoes Edward Hicks’s Peacable Kingdom for a 21st century audience. Hicks, a Quaker preacher, painted over sixty variations on the Bible passage from Isaiah that offers a vision of peace among creatures that would by nature eat one another. His 19th-century images conjure a world redeemed from sin, aspiring to a state of grace before the Maker. Traub’s paintings resound in an era for which ecology and redemption are an urgent, tangible need dependent on action. Small groups of animals and their human companions wait in the darkness of Traub’s shrine-like paintings. These stark, hushed settings contrast with Hicks’s verdant life at the edge of forests. They compel meditation on the here and now, never mind the hereafter.”
- from the exhibition essay by Robert Cozzolino, Curator of Painting at the Minneapolis Institute of Art