Maysey Craddock Studio

⚡️✨⚡️Tomorrow! ⚡️✨⚡️
If you are in the Bay Area my work will be up through January 6. I’ll be at the opening tomorrow November 2, 5pm-8pm and will also be at the gallery this coming Saturday November 4 from 10:30-12:30ish.

Huge thank you to Sarah for the invitation, to and for the ✍️ 🪡studio help, 📸 and to .works.sf for the excellent work framing the show 🙏

A few studio shots from the past few months preparing for a show in the Bay Area
Opening next week ✨✨✨
Stay tuned!

Studio details

Thank you 💙💙💙
Posted • Last day to see Maysey Craddock’s solo show! Thank you for this magical month of “Golden Hour”🌞🌞🌞
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“Fugitive Sky”, 2023, gouache, flashe, and thread on found paper (details)
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“This piece with its moody palette and otherworldly hues reminds me of that weird light that happens just before storms, especially storms with tornadic or cyclonic activity, when even in stillness the eerie shift in atmosphere signals something just beyond the horizon. In naming it ‘Fugitive Sky’ I am also referencing the terminology of ‘fugitive’ in color theory: some pigments’ intensity and even hue are highly susceptible to certain environmental conditions such as sun exposure, pollution, humidity and temperature. These original colors of a work of art shift and change, sometimes even reversing themselves into the negative. A fugitive color subverts and morphs, chameleon like. A world you think you know slips away, benevolent one moment and foreboding the next.” — ❤️

Countdown to the close of ‘Golden Hour’ 🌘🌒

“Midnight’s Rivers” conjures an endless moment, a moonlight memory, an infinity of stars. Standing in stillness beneath the trees and the night sky, suspended in the shadow of time, the stars and moon and darkness blanketing the world you thought you knew. A hush descends, and nothing is needed.

‘Golden Hour’ is on view through June 30. This new body of work explores color and form through images that reference the endangered wetland ecologies of the northern Gulf Coast. In titling the show ‘Golden Hour’, I refer to both that time of day just after sunrise or before sunset when the light is radiantly diffuse, as well as to the medical use of the phrase which points to that critical moment just after traumatic injury, when the clock is ticking on successful treatment. We are, of course, in that golden hour of urgent possibility for this beautiful planet, having inflicted so much damage and injury upon natural systems.

“Midnight’s Rivers”; 2023; 48x35.5 inches; , thread and flashe on archivally treated