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Amy Mayfield

By Jason Foumberg on April 10, 2007

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, CHICAGO

There is no conceptual trick to being seduced by and pulled into Amy Mayfield’s world of visual pleasure; all you’ll need are your eyes and your wagging tongue.  See the world through the eyes of a kitten in heat that has its own stash of magic mushrooms. Claws and prickly dick intact, nightmarish cuteness will unabashedly ravish even the most timid viewer.  Mayfield’s paintings cast a spell in a pitch that ranges somewhere between the mermaid’s fantasy siren song and a rabid libidinal caterwaul of cartoonish gore (à la the “Happy Tree Friends”). These pictures cut, gut, thrash, and finally woo the senses in a choreographed and glorious bloodbath of paint, replete with tiny flowers.

Published in Newcity (April 10, 2007)

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