This Saturday, July 31, is the closing day for Dayna Thacker’s exhibition, Pivots of Moment and the Structure of Accumulation, at Barbara Archer Gallery.
During her artist talk last month, Dayna Thacker piqued my curiosity when she mentioned that the imagery of her collage titled Implied Agreement by Tenant (Higher Still) was in part inspired by the Slavic legend of the Baba Yaga. Like many other fairytale witches, the Baba Yaga can fly by means of a broom (or a giant mortar and pestle) and likes to spend her time inventing new ways of tormenting small children. She also is a figure of untold wisdom and, in some stories, lives in a cabin with enormous walking chicken legs. The anecdote intrigued me, but it sadly was one of several details I was unable to address in my forthcoming review in print. Read more »