Ann Craven

"You don't need a press release to tell you that Craven's subject isn't roses at all, it's the fleeting nature of everything: art, memory, life." The New Yorker, June 2010.

Ann Craven is an artist whose work features recurring subject matter such as flowers, birds and the moon. Working in watercolours and oil, she uses these media as a laboratory of psychological exploration, producing works that communicate by means of vibrant colour and virtuosic execution.

She began painting roses some years ago, approaching the subject with a deep, intuitive connection to the symbolism of the rose. In her current series of near black-and-white paintings, each work is painted from life and then copied as if seen in a mirror, reversing right and left. Seen together -  the originals and the reversals - they raise fascinating questions about perception, repetition and difference. Craven's roses immerse the viewer in a dramatic world of changing perception, while her continual reworking of her images becomes, as Kate Sonnenborn wrote in Frieze magazine, a "compelling project" that "engages the most pressing issues of today's art world, including questions of consumption, collection, authenticity, value and skill."

Ann Craven is based in New York. Recent exhibitions include Prague Biennial, Czech Republic; Maccarone Gallery, New York; La Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris; Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki; Vilma Gold, London; Karma International, Zurich and Conduits, Milan.

Kilkenny Arts Festival is pleased to present this artist's first project in Ireland.

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