Drea Cofield “Lotus Eaters”

Nancy Margolis Gallery

poster for Drea Cofield “Lotus Eaters”
[Image: Drea Cofield "Bliss" (2018) ink on paper, 18 x 24 in.]

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Drea Cofield’s new body of work draws inspiration from literary sources, including the story of the Lotus Eaters from Homer’s Odyssey. In the epic poem, the hero Odysseus encounters a tribe of lotus-eaters on his return to Ithaka. The flowers and fruits—possessing a narcotic quality—overcame those who ate them with lethargy and a blissful forgetfulness. Cofield expanded on this ancient metaphor of forgetting cultural rules to depict what she calls “an amoral Eden,” where nude figures exist and interact with one another in a hedonistic, alternate reality. Instead of illustrating Homer’s story literally, Cofield developed a mythological voice of her own to describe her fictitious world and the characters who inhabit it.

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from September 13, 2018 to October 27, 2018

Opening Reception on 2018-09-13 from 18:00 to 20:00

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