Article: Lizbeth Mitty at Cheryl Pelavin.(New York)(Brief Article)

Lizbeth Mitty's oil-on-canvas paintings of Central Park are not primarily paintings of a place. She renders a state of mind. Unlike many other representationalists of the '90s, the artist relies for inspiration not on photos of the site but on her memories of a place. That was true also of her earlier work based on midtown Manhattan's magnificent scramble and her childhood in Queens. Central Park offers more fodder for the imagination than either of those: we see handsome footbridges, forbidding walls, elegant stone staircases and sketchily rendered buildings beyond all the vegetation. We are hard put to say where, exactly, in the park we find ourselves, but most likely ...

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