Artists kept playing catch - up as color increasingly swamped
popular culture and amateur photography; many came to take their cues from both, and in 1976 Museum
of Modern Art photography curator John Szarkowski gave William Eggleston a major
solo exhibition for his now - iconic photos combining a snapshot aesthetic with a mastery
of the dye imbibition process that «allowed Eggleston to draw attention to color without making it the
subject of the photograph,» Rohrbach writes.
About the artists and their work: The late Anthony Ballard, known for his precise pen - and - ink drawings
of erotic
subjects and geometrics, has garnered significant critical attention in recent years; Mercedes Kelly's fanciful depictions
of canine and feline
subjects have been a crowd - pleasing fixture at the Fair over many seasons; Lawrence Pujol's refreshing country landscapes are becoming increasingly
popular with collectors; Angela Rogers's «poppets» --- magical assemblages wrapped in brightly - hued yarn — incorporate intriguing mystical symbolism; Robin Taylor's «Jenny» paintings affectingly portray a young girl so bashful that her face is represented as a mop
of bright orange hair; Alyson Vega's intricate fiber works, shown to great acclaim in a 2016
solo exhibition at the prestigious venue White Columns, surprise and enchant.