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Heavenly Blue

January 10, 2008- February 9, 2008

Daisy Craddock

Fischbach Gallery

210 11th Ave

Daisy Craddock turns her close study of the colors of the natural world to the depiction of morning glories in her recent series of diptychs. The show takes its title from the species named, appropriately, Heavenly Blue. Drawn from life, each pair depicts a portion of the flower’s petal on the left and its transition to stamen on the right. What appear to be abstract blocks of color become, on further inspection, focused records of specific surfaces and hues caught in shifting light. The subtle palette changes over time as the pale blues of early morning give way to full noonday sun before deepening into the violet tinges of late afternoon.

The works continue to display a modulated and detailed complexity that grows out of multiple layers of scumbled oil pastels burnished by the artist’s hand. Craddock notes that they are as much about the joy of being intensely in the moment as they are about the process. We are asked to share her meditations on fleeting glimpses of the everyday sublime.

Daisy Craddock was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1949. She received her BA from Rhodes College in Memphis in 1971, and her MFA in painting from the University of Georgia, Athens in 1973. She currently resides in New York City.

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