{"id":10984,"date":"2019-03-27T16:35:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T20:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=10984"},"modified":"2019-03-27T22:36:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T02:36:16","slug":"kimberly-witham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2019\/03\/27\/kimberly-witham\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimberly Witham\u2019s Sweet And Somber Still-Life Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kimberly Witham<\/a>\u2019s exhibition \u201cOn Beauty,\u201d at Boston\u2019s Gallery Kayafas<\/a> from March 1 to April 6, 2019, offer lush still-life photos from 2017 and \u201918. Her \u201cOn Beauty\u201d series is sweet with bright purple and orange flowers, melted ice cream, Pop-Tarts and cookies. Her \u201cLaid Table\u201d series is somber featuring dark browns and other earth tones and dead squirrels, mice, an owl.<\/p>\n

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Kimberly Witham, “Pretty Please with Sugar on Top,” 2018. (Courtesy Gallery Kayafas)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cMy work is strongly influenced by natural history dioramas, cabinets of curiosity, still-life painting and other manifestations of humankind\u2019s attempt to categorize, comprehend and ultimately control the natural world,\u201d the Lebanon, New Jersey, artist writes. \u201cAll of my photographs are informed by my studies in art history and my love of nature. I am an avid gardener, wanderer, and collector of bones, shells, seed pods and other ephemera.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kimberly Witham, “Artificial Sweetener,” 2018. (Courtesy Gallery Kayafas)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cMy images are a very personal meditation on beauty, fecundity, fragility and the inevitable march of time,\u201d Witham writes. \u201cThe visual language of these images is borrowed from classical Dutch still-life painting. In these paintings, flowers, fruit and flesh are represented in varying states of ripeness and decay. These paintings serve as both a celebration of beauty and a reminder of the inevitability of death. They are simultaneously seductive and grotesque. The materials used in my images are all culled from my surroundings. The flowers and vegetables are from my garden. The animals and birds are all roadkill found close to my New Jersey home. The fleeting nature of my subject matter requires me to work only with what is available on any given day.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kimberly Witham, “Wooly Bears,” 2018. (Courtesy Gallery Kayafas)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kimberly Witham, “Melancholia,” 2017. (Courtesy Gallery Kayafas)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kimberly Witham, “Autumn,” 2017. (Courtesy Gallery Kayafas)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kimberly Witham\u2019s exhibition \u201cOn Beauty,\u201d at Boston\u2019s Gallery Kayafas from March 1 to April 6, 2019, offer lush still-life photos from 2017 and \u201918. Her \u201cOn Beauty\u201d series is sweet with bright purple and orange flowers, melted ice cream, Pop-Tarts and cookies. Her \u201cLaid Table\u201d series is somber featuring dark browns and other earth tones […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[37,416],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10991,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10984\/revisions\/10991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}