Horned & Antlered Animals: Paintings and Monotypes by Valentina DuBasky

"In this new collection of vividly colored paintings of bison, goats, stags and antelope, artist Valentina DuBasky celebrates the shapes and structure of horns and antlers in the animal world-the spiraling and coiling horns of goats and sheep, the smooth horns of cattle, the meandering or lyre-shaped horns of antelope, and the regal crowns of stags-paired, branched or forked. Valentina DuBasky traveled on the Silk Routes in China, Central and Southeast Asia, and as a Fulbright Senior Specialist in India to research Buddhist cave paintings and ancient art in preparation for the paintings. Horned and Antlered Animals explores the relationship between ancient art and the contemporary imagination through images that are pitched on the edge of abstraction"--