Liberty Realm

The fascinating phantasmal worlds in the work of the artist Cathy Ward.

Pulsing and surging with dark energies, Cathy Ward's mesmerising drawings capture a restlessly inquiring spirit through the meticulous rendering of organic forms. Their mystery, emotional depth, and enveloping sensuality recall an occluded art-historical canon of weird psychedelia, hermetic alchemical illustrations and outsider horror vacui. Liberty Realm presents a broad survey of works ranging from the acclaimed drawings exhibited recently in "Phantasmata" at The Good Luck Gallery (Los Angeles), "Talespinning" at the Drawing Center (New York), "Romantic detachment" at PS1 MOMA (New York) and "Utopia" at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, Wisconsin), to new explorations and insightful glimpses of her earlier output and formative practice. Substantial essays by Doug Harvey and Robert Wallis further untangle these fascinating phantasmal worlds.

Fascinantele lumi fantasmale din lucrarea artistului Cathy Ward. Pulsante si pline de energii intunecate, desenele fascinante ale lui Cathy Ward surprind un spirit nelinistit de intrebare prin redarea meticuloasa a formelor organice. Misterul lor, profunzimea emotionala si senzualitatea invaluitoare amintesc de un canon istoric-arta ocluit de psihedelie ciudata, ilustratii alchimice ermetice si groaza vacui exterioara.