to Magritte’s Man in a Bowler Hat by depicting a line of black-suited
businessmen trudging through the snow to climb a ladder through the
fading night sky into the unknown. The Flipped Girl and the Table humorously calls into question the blind following of convention with an
upside-down girl, her hat fixed to her head and a book clutched to her
chest, as she peeks at the legs of a regiment of businessmen in highly
polished dress shoes.
With her clay sculptures that give human features to inanimate objects, Israeli artist Ronit Baranga might have in mind Méret Oppenheim’s Fur Covered Cup and Saucer. In Tea Party, lush opened mouths
bare their teeth from the bottom of white china cups, while others
march along on their finger-legs. In Embraced #1, a hand protrudes from
a floral pot to bend the spout toward an empty cup, ready to pour. The
Maggie Taylor, A World of Her Own, 2018, photomontage
