Anna Conway’s surreal landscapes and tense interior scenes often feature working men whose importance is questionable. Here, in an oil painting from 2004 featured in her current solo show at Fergus McCaffrey Gallery in Chelsea, four men in uniform lie flat on sandy soil to reach into a man-made pool. Their tiny figures, echoed in the forms of spindly trees above them, appear ill-equipped to correct whatever problem lurks below. Titled ‘Pound of Cure,’ the piece presents the unpleasant consequences of someone’s lack of foresight. (On view through Dec 23rd).
Anna Conway, Pound of Cure, oil on panel, 44 x 60 inches, 2004.
Merrily Kerr is an art critic and writer based in New York. For more than 20 years, Merrily has published in international art magazines including Time Out New York, Art on Paper, Flash Art, Art Asia Pacific, Art Review, and Tema Celeste in addition to writing catalogue essays and guest lecturing. Merrily teaches art appreciation at Marymount Manhattan College and has taught for Cooper Union Continuing Education.
For more than a decade Merrily has crafted personalized tours of cultural discovery in New York's galleries and museums for individuals and groups, including corporate tours, collectors, artists, advertising agencies, and student groups from Texas Woman's University, Parsons School of Design, Chicago's Moody Institute, Cooper Union Continuing Education, Hunter College Continuing Education and other institutions. Merrily's tours have been featured in The New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Sydney Morning Herald and Philadelphia Magazine.
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