A representational painter whose work is distinguished by sparseness, subtlety, and timelessness, Emily Pettigrew’s photos emanate a quiet reverence for each historical past and nature. Pettigrew’s narrative work, which depict lone or small teams of figures, landscapes, and American structure, had their inception in her adolescence in Maine. Pettigrew explains: “My love for the starkness of the panorama of my childhood is mirrored in a spartanism in my work. My foundational precept of portray is the elimination of extra elements—a paring all the way down to a picture’s most stunning parts.”
At the moment primarily based within the Catskill Mountains, Pettigrew’s subject material has develop into more and more imbued with the regional historical past of the world and factors to themes of the ‘rising block universe’ and the just about tangible presence of previous time. There’s a magical strangeness scintillating by means of the clear strains and easy homes of Pettigrew’s world—the indication of one thing eldritch that rural sternness and 90-degree angles couldn’t totally repress.
