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Brooklyn-based artist captures dream-like memories between moments"
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Hi Fructose,
"Caitlin Hurd’s Dreamy, Contemplative Paintings"
by Victoria Casal-Data Posted on March 20, 2014
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Margaret McCann, "The Figure: Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture"
Skira Rizzoli (September 23, 2014)
THE FIGURE features outstanding examples of contemporary figurative
art by leading and established artists -- Jenny Saville, Eric
Fischl, Will Cotton, Jerome Witkin, Hilary Harkness, Mark
Greenwold, Eric White, Margaret Bowland and others -- alongside
emerging talents. Topical essays by distinguished critics, painters
and sculptors -- Donald Kuspit, Irving Sandler, Vincent Desiderio,
Alexi Worth, David Ebony, Julie Heffernan, Judy Fox, Kurt Kauper,
Laurie Hogin, Robert Taplin, and others -- along with "artist
methodologies" by Trenton Doyle Hancock, Richard Phillips, Rona
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Steve Mumford, Scott Noel, Natalie Frank, Anne Harris, Andrew
Raftery, Nicola Verlato, Steve Mumford, Edgar Jerins and others,
provide diverse historical contexts for the volume's nearly 170
artworks. The evolution of techniques -- from classical cast
drawing, perspective, and the camera obscura to the use of
photography, Photoshop, and 3D-modeling -- and changing cultural
conditions from antiquity to cyberspace are examined, and the use
of old and new techniques in contemporary figurative art described.
Underscoring the art of the figure's enduring appeal and the
pedagogy of the New York Academy of Art, THE FIGURE is essential to
anyone interested in both tradition and progress in figure-based
art, from students to professionals and collectors.
Caitlin Hurd’s Dreamy, Contemplative Paintings
by Victoria Casal-DataPosted on March 20, 2014
More often than not, we find that photography tends to be the one medium that lets us realistically experience moments suspended in time. Caitlin Hurd’s figurative paintings, however, have the power to do that too, but in a less literal way. After surviving a hit and run, Hurd’s priority as an artist shifted; her objective from then on was to capture the moments most prominent in her mind.
With a hazy, dreamy aesthetic, Hurd has the ability to create scenarios that are evocative of distant memories. Through metaphorical imagery, surreal settings and unusual, floating, dead-weight subjects, the artist has the ability to communicate emotions and feelings that are suggestive of personal experiences. These paintings, she says, “are an attempt to make sense of the accident. My work is focused on the line dividing what is experienced and what cannot be expressed in words.”
Hi Fructose,
"Caitlin Hurd’s Dreamy, Contemplative Paintings"
by Victoria Casal-Data Posted on March 20, 2014