In GRACIE a striptese dancer moves across the digital painting’s horizon, a set of classical arches her footpath. In this way, Cortright merges ancient and contemporary references within her landscape, which overflows with multi-colored flowers and other lush vegetation. At odds, however, with the dancer’s delicate movements are the forms of stones flying across the space, the hulking presence of which provide tonal contrast to the space and augments a sense of the fantastic.

GRACIE 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.