Maryjean Viano Crowe

Maryjean Viano Crowe’s contact print of a constructed negative titled “The Bake Off”, has a setting that is more psychological than literal. The image is bisected by a suited 50’s style male figure, separating the two female figures into left and right tableaux. The right hand figure confronts us with a robotic gaze as she mechanically dumps out a Bundt cake. One feels that she is trapped in her domestic cage. The female on the left is engaged with the exiting male, their hands have become an abstract tangle, her gaze is averted and her place is as an ornament topping a fruity desert. Everything floats as if it were a fractured pane of glass within a bottomless black void.