Rebecca Fagg

GREENSBORO, NC

Rebecca Fagg has stated that she likes working with an idea through several iterations. "Paper Bags #2" is one in a series of oil panel paintings of contemporary still life subjects. Here a group of simple white bags is illuminated against a plain dark ground. The image is cropped so that only the tops of the bags are visible. Crowded like dancers in crinolines to one side of the composition, the bags’ crisp serrated edges catch light and create a play of tonal variations. Fagg’s brush describes light glancing across the paper’s smooth surfaces and filtering into spaces inside the bags. And in a kind of reversal of the premise of still life genre, the more pictorial information the viewer is given the more abstract the painting becomes.

Rebecca Fagg earned her BFA at UNCG in 1977. Her solo exhibitions include the Collector’s Gallery, North Carolina Museum of Art; OK Harris, New York; The Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan; Macaon & Co Fine Art, Atlanta; and Blue Spiral in Asheville. Fagg has been featured regularly in GreenHill’s WINTER SHOW, and she curated the 2005 exhibition: Hand to Hand: A Legacy of North Carolina Painters. Fagg’s works figure in private and public collections across the country including Delta Airlines, Duke University Medical Center, The Weatherspoon Museum of Art and North Carolina Museum of Art. She is the recipient of a Pollack Krasner Foundation grant and maintains her studio in Greensboro.