Xanadu Series 2002-2006
Built Against Site
Paragraph Gallery
Kansas City, MO
Hesse McGraw, Curator
Noted for her seductive paintings of geodesic domes and fantastical forests, Michelle Wasson’s dreamy tableaux coerce idyllic landscapes and utopian structures onto the same picture plane. Wasson’s speculative images are gorgeous; yet seethe a kind of uneasiness due to their impossibility.
Although these “screen-like portals” exemplify the crumbling of the
technocratic utopian vision, by conjoining traditional painting with digital processes, Wasson provides a novel escape. As she says,
“Linking human and digital memory, this process becomes the passport to endlessly voyage the continuum between infinite worlds of serene utopia and eerily ominous rapture.”
Participating artists:
Anthony Baab, Erik Benson, Gabert Farrar, Sue Friesz, Angelina Gualdoni, Adam Scott, William Swanson, Michelle Wasson