Ann Craven
Contributions by Susan Howe and Richard Kalina.
Conversation between Jay Sanders and Ann Craven
Karma, New York, 2024
124 pages, hardcover
11 × 11 inches
This catalog, accompanying Karma’s three-part exhibition
of new paintings by Ann Craven (born 1967), surveys major
motifs of the artist’s nearly 30-year-long practice. For
the first time, she has set all of her scenes in the
darkness of evening, creating a consistent chromatic
background that intensifies her always-vibrant colors.
These oils of moons, trees, birds, flowers and deer
constitute the latest chapter in her systematic catalog
of what she terms “revisitations,” each of which is also
a reinvention of her subject matter. In this body of work,
and across her practice, figuration morphs into
kaleidoscopic abstraction and back again, each canvas
resisting easy categorization in favor of pure feeling.
In addition to a lush plate section, this volume features
an intimate conversation between the artist and curator
Jay Sanders, an expansive art-historical essay by Richard
Kalina and poems written and collected in dedication to
Craven by Susan Howe.
