There is something melancholy about these hidden worlds that Ritchie has recorded with such determination and care, they are the departed and departing moments of our lives that we will never experience…..

“When the viewer first glances at one of my paintings, the image and viewer lock eyes. The image stares back with a shifting, slivered gaze, appealing to the viewer to seek resolution of its ever-elusive form. Confronted with irreconcilable fragments or impenetrable blind spots, the viewer struggles to answer the image’s plea. Savouring the seductive exchange, the viewer and image become entwined in an active portrait of the experience of looking.” ~ A. Clyne

A curator at Galerie für Landschaftskunst said that Virg’s art was “bewitching”. Yes, it is, in the manner of Harry Potter or the magic realist texts. These inanimate objects are charmed into something amusing that stop you in the tracks.

Sascha Braunig, a young Canadian artist, known for her reimagining of the studio portrait, was recently featured in her first solo exhibit at Foxy Productions in Manhattan.

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