Alyssa Fanning and Kristin Cronic at Pocket Utopia
Pocket Utopia proudly announces a two-person exhibition of paintings and a drawing by Alyssa Fanning and Kristin Cronic.
When experienced together, Kristin Cronic's and Alyssa Fanning's paintings conjure a vibrant, eclectic universe. This exhibition offers a compelling view of our relationship with land, sky, and trees.
Alyssa Fanning's paintings create euphoric spaces filled with joyful color and clear light, inviting viewers to explore scenes within scenes that connect the cosmic and microcosmic worlds. Her work features clouds, trees, and spheres, which appear as solid forms on terrestrial mounds and transparencies within globes and clouds. These dreamscapes encourage the viewer to navigate a web of surfaces, marks, and forms to derive meaning. In an era of technological complexity, Fanning's art challenges concrete concepts of reality and shared truths, reflecting the fluidity and diversity of modern existence. Her intricate process combines improvisation with perceptual observation, depicting imagined personal and ecological landscapes.
Kristin Cronic's work on view at Pocket Utopia remains firmly grounded in the natural world, focusing on the majesty and personality of trees. Her series captures the spirit, light, and depth of perspective inherent in these ancient giants. Cronic's paintings preserve the raw, intuitive marks made in the early stages of creation, using wood and canvas to highlight these gestures. Influenced by a summer spent with a 200-year-old oak tree, her brushy, symbolic forms elevate the mind and spirit, offering a peaceful and permanent view of the natural environment. Cronic's exploration of trees extends beyond their physical form, portraying them as dynamic entities that embody resilience, wisdom and a silent witness to human experiences.
By pairing these two artists, Pocket Utopia Gallery invites viewers to explore a mystical portrait of the land. Fanning and Cronic consider how humans interact with and observe the universe, blending the tangible and the magical in their unique approaches to art.
