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What Is Your Fantasy?
Leigh Craven, Manlius, NY
What Is Your Fantasy? is a series of 22 polyester print lithographs
. The adhesive bound "board book" structure is covered in Japanese
silk with décor of an etching and silkscreened title. Created in
2006 in an edition of eight.
"Our relationships are complex. What we project to the outside world
may not be the reality of our inside world. But each of us exposes clues
about our life and our relationships with the look of an eye, the expression
of our mouth, our body language. We expose each of ourselves in ways we
may not have realized. And simultaneously, we clothe ourselves in deceptive
guises as means of protection. Portraiture opens the door to the sitter's
personal space. It provides insight to the subjects' character, their
identity."
Leigh Craven has a BFA in printmaking from Cornell University and a MFA
in printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design, and studies bookbinding
with Peter Verheyen. She has taught at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, New
York, is currently teaching in the Department of Art at Bridgewater State
College in Massachusetts, and has been a visiting professor at various
other institutions. Her work has been exhibited widely in group and solo
exhibitions earning her numerous honors and awards.
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