Exhibitions

MAYSEY CRADDOCK: A RIVER I LOVED

David Lusk Gallery Memphis / 97 Tillman St. November 19 - December 21st

Maysey Craddock

I’m reminded of a quote by Eudora Welty: “Place conspires with the artist. We are surrounded by our own story, we live and move in it. It is through place that we put out roots.” As an artist, I paint what I know, and I more deeply come to know the places I paint. For years I have focused on places I know intimately - specific sites that I come back to over time to witness the slow change of seasons, natural cycles and, sometimes, erasure and loss. That cyclical pattern is mirrored in my studio, where I engage in a deeper way of seeing through the painting process but then re-see it again in another iteration - through a change in color and atmosphere or scale and composition. I think of my work as a kind of memorialization of these places.