No water so still as the dead fountains of Versailles
Marianne Moore
1887 – 1972
Modernism scorned the decorative. More than a century later, its patterned flourishes are a kind of ghostly garden for Claudia Fitch, now showing at Greg Kucera.
THE EDGE OF THE WORLD, 2010
Graphite oil pastel on Strathmore drawing paper
45.5 x 37 inches
The door leads nowhere, but the windows wake you up. So do her figures. Pried from plinths and niches, they wrap themselves in cultural influences and jump into 21st-Century space, landing lightly.
FLATSCREEN, 2009
Ceramic, steel, gator board, flocked paint
26 x 15 x 6 inches
Love the boots. Through June 26.
Claudia just digs at my heart, has for years!