My particular take on vanitas is to memorialise the fleeting aesthetic of temporary displays in which the objects depicted are a kind of vernacular of consumerism, tying the image to a specific time and place. (artweb.com)
Alice Thorson, «Rauschenberg Gifted in Vernacular of Photography; Exhibit Offers Solid Look at that Aspect of Painter's Talent,» Kansas City Star, April 4, 1997. (sfmoma.org)
It's also embodied in «Beverly Buchanan — Ruins and Rituals» at the Brooklyn Museum, a full - career look at an artist who invested much of her energy in reconstituting, in miniature, African - American vernacular architecture of the Carolinas and Georgia, where she grew up. (nytimes.com)