
Spotlight Artist
Maysey Craddock
South
Artist Statement
My gouache-on-found-paper paintings are based on photographic
explorations of the ephemeral landscape: places where water
meets land, where fallen trees are swallowed by their reflection,
where the horizon dissolves into sky. These sculptural, stitchedtogether
surfaces, with their layers of painting and drawing, are
like the palimpsests I seek in the landscape: the strata of meaning
and experience in a specific place.
My work has always referenced borders and the in-between:
liminal spaces that, fluctuating between here and there, being
and becoming, offer another kind of reality. In recent work, I have
turned toward the watery landscapes of coastal wetlands and
marshes as a visual exploration of themes of impermanence,
mortality, memory, and entropy.
These works offer a visual back and forth, a tidal ebb and flow
revealing diminishing and precarious wild spaces as ever-shifting
repositories for richness, fragility, and the inevitability of change.
Artist's Additional works
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