Maysey Craddock: Golden Hour

Sears-Peyton Gallery is pleased to present Maysey Craddock’s solo exhibition, Golden Hour. Craddock’s new body of work explores color and form through images that reference the wetland ecologies of the northern Gulf Coast. These are spaces where water meets land, places that thrive in tidal ambiguity and in the delicate balance of a breathing sea, and constantly regenerating borderland. They are also places endangered by human encroachment, industry, looming rising seas and anthropogenically altered patterns of nature. This potential for disruption and change is mirrored in the transformative process of making in Craddock’s studio. While drawn from her own photographs of this landscape, the resulting paintings - gouache on sewn together fragments of repurposed paper bags - arrive in a reimagined dream space through abstraction, negation and erasure.

Golden Hour refers 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. Craddock believes we are in that golden hour of urgent possibility for this beautiful planet, having inflicted so much damage and injury upon natural systems. She hopes that in reflecting both the beauty and fragility of these landscapes, the atmospheric paintings of Golden Hour will inspire a deepened sense of attention and awareness to the essential and vital splendor of this precarious world.

Maysey Craddock: Golden Hour is on view June 1 – June 30, 2023 at Sears-Peyton Gallery’s Chelsea location at 210 Eleventh Avenue. There is an evening reception June 1 from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Exhibitions are open to the public Tuesday - Friday from 11:00 am – 5:00pm and Saturdays from 12:00 pm - 5:00pm. For more information or to request further press images, please contact the gallery at info@searspeyton.com.