Ann Craven: Cats with a selection of poems by Cherry Pickman – Ann Craven

Ann Craven Ann Craven: Cats with a selection of poems by Cherry Pickman

November 30th - December 20th, 2021

Ann Craven, Nina Johnson, painting — Ann Craven, White Kitty (on Blue), 2020, 2020, Oil on canvas, 48 x 36 in

Inquire

White Kitty

Few things certain but she knows

the possibility of petals

so white a likeness unlike

anything she’s known and a blue

from beyond

Ann Craven, Nina Johnson, Drawing — Ann Craven, Cats in Shelter (Lena, Again, May 02, 2020), 2020, Soft pastel on 50lb acid free paper, 17 x 14 in.

Inquire

Frick & Frack, Again

For captive gods the enclosure

is of little consequence

they spend most days waiting

inside their power

tails curled bodies coiled

Inquire

Cammy, Again

That markings should signify

might be the greatest

misconception her eyes light

each stripe as I try

to paint devotion into place

Inquire

Jeffrey, Again

You’d think him part

bird imperious

impish invincible

on his stolen perch

Inquire

Lena

Without wilderness and so no

longer wild yes the beast

has left the cat the cat has

taken the garden

for her world

Ann Craven

Over a more than 30 year career, Ann Craven has risen to become one of the most recognized and influential painters of her generation. Her works are in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Whitney, The New Museum, the ICA Miami, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and various other institutions and prestigious private collections around the world. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in The New York Times, Modern Painters, Art News, LA Times, Art in America, Artforum, Flash Art, The New Yorker and Frieze, among others.