Shadowed World, Shattered World
Regina Granne

October 9 – November 3, 2007

In Shadowed World, Shattered World, Regina Granne paints the military moves and motives of war. Her oil on linen paintings and pencil drawings are quite literally “nature mort.” Granne goes about “constructing a painting ” by creating a model, or still life, to work from - complete with plastic soldiers and folded paper airplanes. Each map and bar graph she depicts is derived from an atlas or newspaper clipping one might have glanced at in the New York Times, but passed over. The forms of ghostly toy soldiers and their looming shadows are haunting in their facelessness. These “Shadowed Worlds” lie somewhere between real space and war-torn toy lands. By re-contextualizing the information and data on the horrors of war, Granne’s masterful paintings bring meaning back to the overload of information with which we are saturated.

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