The artist's recent paintings explore relationships between nature and abstraction, returning to landscape motifs as a source for painterly invention. (michaelwerner.com)
In my imagination, Crosby's painterly invention of a scene of domestic uncovering, or the restoration of black feminine rest - in - love, is in conversation with Kerry James Marshall's startling Still Life with Wedding Portrait (2015), in which Harriet Tubman — a martial figure in black American life — is portrayed as a glowing, shiny - black bride. (frieze.com)
It is difficult, today, to reconcile radical painterly invention with dusty still lifes and charcoal. (painters-table.com)