Maura Holden: Threatening the Epsychic Status Quo - RAW VISION

Maura Holden: Threatening the Epsychic Status Quo

First published: Fall 2006

In her meticulously rendered, illusionistic drawings and paintings, Maura Holden creates richly detailed, self-contained worlds, in which fantastic primeval landscapes and cities made up of elaborate multi-tiered buildings emerge from banks of billowing fog or stand out against glowing, turbulent-looking skies.

 

 

The human figures and gargoylish creatures populating these realms are most often frontally posed in confrontational stances, to somewhat unnerving effect. These are powerful, visionary images, evoking a deep sense of the uncanny.

 

This is an article extract; read the full article in Raw Vision #56

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