BRITTANY is a work centered on idealism, both human and environmental. Placed within the landscape of a prototypical enchanted forest, replete with mushrooms, sparkling shafts of light, and a unicorn, is a female figure dressed in a gingham pastoral outfit, to whom the viewer’s eye is drawn through her direct gaze and that of the unicorn who moves directly toward her. In this fantastical space, Cortright composes a world saturated in constructs of purity, all of which are embedded in the flora and fauna of the landscape.
BRITTANY is a digital painting on hot press rag paper mounted on dibond.
Petra Cortright (b. 1986 in Santa Barbara, California) has exhibited both nationally and internationally at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Austria, and the Venice Biennale, Italy. Her work is held in the permanent collections of MOCA Los Angeles, MCA Chicago, and Kadist, Paris, among others.
