Emily Pettigrew: Painting in the Catskills 2021鈥�2025
A representational painter whose work is distinguished by sparseness, subtlety, and timelessness, Emily Pettigrew鈥檚 pictures emanate a quiet reverence for both history and nature. Pettigrew鈥檚 narrative paintings, which depict lone or small groups of figures, landscapes, and American architecture, had their inception in her formative years in Maine. Pettigrew explains: 鈥淢y love for the starkness of the landscape of my childhood is reflected in a spartanism in my work. My foundational principle of painting is the removal of excess parts鈥攁 paring down to an image鈥檚 most beautiful elements.鈥�
Currently based in the Catskill Mountains, Pettigrew鈥檚 subject matter has become increasingly imbued with the regional history of the area and points to themes of the 鈥榞rowing block universe鈥� and the almost tangible presence of past time. There is a magical strangeness scintillating through the clean lines and simple houses of Pettigrew鈥檚 world鈥攖he indication of something eldritch that rural sternness and 90-degree angles couldn鈥檛 fully repress.
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A representational painter whose work is distinguished by sparseness, subtlety, and timelessness, Emily Pettigrew鈥檚 pictures emanate a quiet reverence for both history and nature. Pettigrew鈥檚 narrative paintings, which depict lone or small groups of figures, landscapes, and American architecture, had their inception in her formative years in Maine. Pettigrew explains: 鈥淢y love for the starkness of the landscape of my childhood is reflected in a spartanism in my work. My foundational principle of painting is the removal of excess parts鈥攁 paring down to an image鈥檚 most beautiful elements.鈥�
Currently based in the Catskill Mountains, Pettigrew鈥檚 subject matter has become increasingly imbued with the regional history of the area and points to themes of the 鈥榞rowing block universe鈥� and the almost tangible presence of past time. There is a magical strangeness scintillating through the clean lines and simple houses of Pettigrew鈥檚 world鈥攖he indication of something eldritch that rural sternness and 90-degree angles couldn鈥檛 fully repress.
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