CC Vess
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Correspondences, a solo exhibition by CC Vess of monotypes, clay reliefs and installation, recalls Charles Baudelaire’s aesthetic that all nature, beautiful and terrible, is a subject for art. Black predominates and formal elements intertwine across media and image. A monotype series, Les Fleurs du Mal, named after Baudelaire’s infamous volume of poetry, declaims bold, black plant forms. In contrast, soft, toned traceries of leaves on delicate paper in the Green as any Grass series emerge and fade as specimens between book pages. An installation titled Correspondences includes a recorded performance of the poem.  Its high relief packing forms are complemented by an earthy group of tablets whose fossil-like indentations left by disposables crushed into the clay are accentuated with red, green, and black oxides.