Description
Winner of the Gold Medal for Fine Art in the 2020 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards
Winner of the 2020 Independent Press Award for Fine Arts
The animals in Beth Cavener's work are better described as avatars, embodiments of persons or emotions that disguise her subjects. In this way she gives her subjects an expanded identity, pairing each with an animal that, to one extent or another, explains or parallels their behavior. The animal reveals the subject's primal roots and serves as the lens through which we see the evolution of the subject into a modern being. We ultimately come to understand that the human and the animal are inexorably linked together.
The dynamism of Beth Cavener's figures comes from the constant shifting in our minds from human to animal. It is kinetic, releasing emotional energy caused by the disparity between what we see--the animal form--and what we know--that this is a human portrait. Thus the fascination in Cavener's art is perpetual.
Author: Garth Clark, Ezra Shales, Lauren Redding
Publisher: SF Design, LLC / Frescobooks
Published: 11/15/2019
Pages: 252
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 6.60lbs
Size: 13.10h x 11.20w x 1.30d
ISBN13: 9781934491690
ISBN10: 1934491691
BISAC Categories:
- Art | Individual Artists | General