Heavybubble is thrilled that Caroline Furr’s show Floating World at 110 CHURCH has been reviewed by Edith Newhall at the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Afloat
by Edith Newhall, Philadelphia Inquirer
Caroline Furr’s small show, “floating world,” in the similarly tidy gallery 110 CHURCH, provides a glimpse into her contemporary version of Japanese Edo-period ukiyo-e, or “Pictures of the Floating World” woodblock prints. I saw no signs of the kind of red-light district activity that appeared in the 17th-century works, but they could easily be hidden.
Furr’s collages and gouaches on panel board — and combinations of the two — suggest Chinese and Japanese landscape painting, too, but as seen through a surrealist’s lens. Dorothea Tanning and Leonore Carrington would seem to be her touchstones.
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image: floating world (buoyant and blissful), collage-gouache, felt tip, pencil and gold leaf on rag board, 36 x 27″ framed