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Ann Craven

Ann Craven, Quiet Subversion

Ann Craven's paintings are deceptively simple and hide a quiet subversion lurking within. Her seemingly banal subjects are honestly painted exercises in conceptual repetition where in the ordinary becomes sublime. Craven's new paintings are a metaphor of loss and memory bracketed by the waxing and waning moon. It's like conceptualism with an emotional center. Craven is also returning to an idea that she painted in 1995 just before a colossal fire stole through her studio burning every painting she ever made. This show re-visits a former idea and resurrects it to the present. This painted past also acts as a passage of people in her life through the metaphor of a the simple image of the moon repeated 400 times. more...

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