In the North Greenhouse

Mark Alan Leithauser

Mark Leithauser etches with short, sure lines, using grays and blacks to create a lush composition of the interior of a greenhouse. He contains the image within a linear border, which he breaks through with foliage in the foreground. The effect is similar to Peter Milton's etching "Daylilies" where the composition intrudes into the viewers' space, drawing the viewer into it.

In her introduction "Alternate Landscape" for the Coe Kerr Gallery exhibition catalogue of 1988 curator Ruth E. Fine writes:

"...Leithauser has developed storehouse of images memorized, photographed, and drawn. These become subject details for his constructed compositions. Spatial games, such as those played by the Dutch artist M.C. Escher, and suggestions of metamorphosis intrigue Leithauser too".