December 12, 2003
Anthony Green and Mary Cozens-Walker
Anthony Green and Mary Cozens-Walker
are a British husband and wife artist team. They are both painters, at the simplest description, but then their work goes far beyond any categorization. Green makes three dimensional paintings. Cozens-Walker does multimedia creations that employ stitching, textiles, painting and lots more. Her approach involves a colorful energy to create portraits and tableaus of domesticity gone askew.
My favorite image on the web from the show is "Compact Lovers", a series of portraits created in found compact cases. Unfortunately no detail is given about the work - which artist created it - or what materials did they use. So, in my imagination, these are delicately stitched portraits of former lovers, now consigned to waxing away in some drawer full of forgotten letters. Maybe art is better on the web? Or at least it forces interactive imaginings.
More work mixed media work by Mary Cozens-Walker can be seen on the web at the Boundary Gallery.
image:Compact Lovers by Mary Cozens-Walker
