35 Claver Place

I did these little landscapes in the middle of winter, it was cold, I wanted to be somewhere else. I could hang them on the wall and pretend that I was there.

These recent paintings using trees as subject matter are a close-up lens on the tree as symbol. My trees exist in the three worlds, with the branches in the heavens, the trunk in the world we inhabit, and the roots in the underworld. Trees are symbolic in many cultures; from Christian and Jewish mythology, to ancient Egypt’s “Holy Sycamore” which stood at the gate of life and death, to the Mayan culture’s “Yaxche,” which has branches that hold up the heavens.

Isabelle escapes the busy robot city insearch of something else,
...almost getting hit by the limo, isabelle realizes this could be her way out of robot city.

Cassandra Quinn
Artist
larksparkle@gmail.com

PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Alexa Favata, Associate Director
favata@arts.usf.edu
Tel: 813-974-4133

Exhibition: Dragon Veins
January 13 through March 11

Symposium: January 13, 10:00am-Noon
Phyllis Marshall Center, Room 270; Free, limited seating.

Idiosyncratic Hybrids: Traditional East Asian Art and Contemporary Painting
Artists Frances Barth, David Brody, Emily Cheng, Zhang Hongtu, and special guest Lilly Wei; curators Elisabeth Condon, Mernet Larsen and respondents Paula Lee and Daphne Rosenzweig.