Shannon Joy Burch

 

Crown /d with Stars

These two  seem to be the centerpieces for this exhibit -- everything else feels like figure studies made in our workshops.

They feel deeply personal - but also like posters for a movie - possibly science fiction.

I'm more interested in the untold story behind them than in the paintings themselves. Same thing with the lyrics to the King Crimson song.

But not with the poem by Yeats.  Knowing the backstory, if there is one, would only distract from the flow of language.

MIsha - painted, appropriately enough, with the chiseled planes favored by the Soviet school.

Model and artists --- one of my favorite subject matters.

Roberta - one of our favorite local character models