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Paula Lawrie
High Socks New Jersey 1950
This publication features all thirty-six works on paper from the exhibition at Marvin Gardens, New York. Through the architecture of the narrative, a surreal landscape pours out. Abundant details of shading, pattern, and abstraction of figures coalesce into visually inventive and emotive characters.
Corresponding text weaves a narrative through the drawings, revealing the story of a high-school age Lawrie, having just moved from New Jersey to New Haven, Connecticut where she finds a community that is a little more accommodating, though not without its own betrayals.
Press: Mutual Art
Collections: MoMA Library, New York Public Library
Published by Pacific and Marvin Gardens, 2020
Softcover
72 pages
8 ½ × 11 inches
Edition of 200