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鈥淭he moon is a lock of witch鈥檚 hair

tawny, and golden, and red

and the night winds pause and stare

at that strand from a witch鈥檚 head鈥�

- Aureila Frances Plath, from Voices and Visions (a documentary on Sylvia Plath) produced by Annenberg Learner, 1988

The moon has a long history of captivating painters. Since the beginning of Modernism, painters such as J.M.W. Turner, Ralph Blakelock, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Georgia O鈥橩eefe, and Arthur Dove have represented the moon for poetic and personal ends. The artists in Lunacy work in this legacy and push the subject to new expressive realms.

John Dilg, Matthew F Fisher, JJ Manford and Luc Paradis use the moon as a visual anchor that orients the viewer in space. For them, the moon is a point on which to rest the eye as a fantasy world takes shape. Everest Hall represents the moon with intense realism, and in other works uses the moon as a gateway to abstraction and painterly freedom. Eschewing outward representations of the moon, Jonathan Cowan uses the conventions of landscape and atmosphere to speak of mysterious celestial bodies, lovingly rendered in embroidery.