But the canvases vary wildly from one to the next — using her tried - and - true vehicles of action and comparison, Fiona Rae's recent paintings stretch from the pastoral «We go
in search of our dream» (2007), featuring a bambi and butterfly peacefully grazing at the
foot of a tree, to the nihilistic and menacing «My favorite puppy's Life» (2004),
in which a now mutated bambi triskelion hurtles through the dark reaches of space, surrounded by rotating stencils, blobs, and brushstrokes (think of the
opening sequence of Superman).