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| Detail from Chriostina Pettersson's "I Will Still Be Here, Long After the Kingdom Cometh" |
In much of her work, Christina Pettersson considers life emerging
from death. She has been inspired by trees growing in cemeteries where
some of her favorite writers, including
Zora Neale Hurston and
Eudora Welty,
are buried. An account of Hiroshima residents discovering that the
bombing that leveled their city had stimulated plant organs, resulting
in an abundance of morning glories, day lilies, bluets and other
flowering plants, captivated her. On canvas, Pettersson has resurrected
women murdered in Shakespeare's plays, and returned birds killed and
stuffed in the name of art to trees.
The two large-scale, self-portrait-type drawings in "The Sentinel," a solo exhibition that opens Feb. 10 ...
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