Witherland, Hanna Pettyjohn’s third show in 2013, concludes a trilogy of shows that began with Bundle and continued with The Glass Between Us. If Bundle -- with faces loosely bound in an assortment of fabrics, all warmth, knick knacks and other personal objects in the periphery -- signified the comfort of being indoors, then The Glass Between Us exposed the sensation of being outdoors and insecure, replacing swaths of cloth with blurred sections like mist on invisible glass. Witherland, following a similar structure of large facial portraits in tandem with still life renderings of the garments from those portraits, attempts to marry the conflicting extremes of the past two shows.
-Matt Jones
