Cris Worley Fine Arts is pleased to announce our latest exhibition of paintings on found paper by gallery artist Maysey Craddock. Ephemeral Field, opens with an artist’s reception on Saturday, April 7th, and will run through May 12th, 2018. The artist will be in attendance for the opening reception. 

Years of personal and artistic evolution have led Maysey Craddock to three concepts that have become the focus of her practice: impermanence, reclamation, and the inevitability of change. Comprised of nine recent works, Ephemeral Field is the latest iteration of this ongoing journey. Craddock best describes her work in the following:

My gouache on found paper paintings are reflections of this idea of making and unmaking in the natural world. I work from imagery based on my own photographs of ephemeral landscapes: places where water meets land, where fallen trees are swallowed by their reflection, where the horizon dissolves into sky. From these images, intricate and abstracted drawings are rendered as linear disintegrations of form and then transferred onto a substrate of sewn-together fragments of found paper.  My process of making and unmaking multiplies in both materiality and image, mirroring the natural and geological processes that inform my work. These sculptural, stitched together surfaces, with their layers of painting and drawing, are like the palimpsests I seek in the landscape: strata of meaning and experience in a specific place. These works offer a visual back and forth, a tidal ebb and flow that presents diminishing and fragile wild spaces as ever-shifting repositories for impermanence, reclamation and the inevitability of change.