New City
 March 2, 2000
Perimeter Gallery

Claire Wolf Krantz
Counterpoints: Reflections on India
Turning India into a surreal land of fantasy
By Michael Weinstein

Taking her signature style of surrounding photographs with swirls of paint to a new level of Integration and sophistication, Claire Wolf Krantz has turned shots of her recent trip to India into the cores of magical fantasy landscapes and cityscapes. Abandoning her previous restraint in favor of unabashed and passionate romantic beauty, Krantz' transfigured India is a wild and colorful storybook kingdom of blood‑red fires, liquid green meadows and bright blue rivers cascading down steep, terraced mountainsides dotted with ancient ruins and villages. Krantz is most provocative when she subverts her medieval idyll by subtly introducing distinctively modern images: at the base of a raging mountain capped by an ancient village, a barely discernible railroad train sits at a station, taking on lines of passengers.

Claire Wolf Krantz is an artist, freelance critic, and guest curator.
As an artist she works in a combination of painting and photography as well as digitally created images.

 

 

 

 

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Claire Wolf Krantz is an artist, freelance critic, and guest curator.
As an artist she works in a combination of painting and photography as well as digitally created images.