Frey Norris Gallery
456 Geary St
415.346.7812
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Leonora Carrington, Le Bon Roi Dagobert, Courtesy Frey Norris Gallery
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Feb 7, 2008 – Mar 30, 2008
Tuesdays–Saturdays (11am–7pm)
Sundays (11am–5pm)
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Leonora Carrington's paintings are populated by mystics, crones, demons, and damsels with wan, Byzantine faces. There is magic in the air, but also menace, and the fairy tales they suggest are more Grimm than Mother Goose. As a young woman, Carrington had a passionate affair with surrealist artist Max Ernst; after WWII separated them, she suffered a nervous breakdown, and the British expat eventually moved to Mexico. While one can see traces of Ernst's strange landscapes in Carrington's frequent recombinations of flora, fauna, human, and beast, her small, delicately detailed paintings also evoke the ex-votos of her adopted homeland — the work of a singular artist shaped by trauma but sustained by grace.
