DREAMS OF LOBSTER AND ROSES #2
Through the Agony and the Ecstasy, We Eat Collection
20 x 20 inches | Original Work
DESCRIPTION
Mixed media on canvas | 2015
A moratorium of San Diego time, this series, Through the Agony and the Ecstasy, We Eat, honors the intrepid entrepreneurs, chefs, builders, and artists who collaborated in the mid-1980s to craft San Diego’s historic Gaslamp Quarter.
Drawing from personal history, Ingrid Croce captures the Much Muchness of the era. Through layering, the burgeoning Gaslamp district emerges as novel, urban space. The fanciful chandelier with the cheap cane chair; the rubble with the grandeur. Found materials - including historically-preserved Croce’s Restaurant & Jazz Bar wallpaper - evoke the idealism of the Downtown environment.
In Through the Agony and the Ecstasy, We Eat, Croce invites the viewer to consider our city’s legacy. To enjoy late-night conversations between dreamers - to delight in the striving, the imperfection, and the ambition behind the Gaslamp’s utopian vision.
DIMENSIONS
20 x 20 inches
AUTHENTICATION
Signed by artist.