Animal Love Summer Monograph Book by Marion Peck

The artist Marion Peck's first comprehensive monograph is titled Animal Love Summer. Peck, one of the pioneers of pop surrealism, includes weird but endearing creatures in her lucid paintings. An unsettling melancholy permeates the air as her enchanted and bucolic vistas unfurl; the birds are chirping, but the sounds are off. The observer pauses and muses over their own world as well as the one Peck has crafted. Along with motifs of dreams, big-eyed animals, natural landscapes, doe-eyed children, aristocracy, and peasantry, Peck's art frequently explores themes of hope, despair, mystery, nostalgia, love, and death. Marion Peck draws inspiration for her painstaking scenes from the depths of art history, popular culture, and human experience, with allusions ranging from Pieter Bruegel to Holly Hobbie. In the same-named painting, peasants dance while their kid sneers at a caged ass and the night's food runs around with its head off. An exquisite queen is anything but in her painting "F*ck You," which is an homage to François Gerard's 1804 "Portrait de Mme Tallien," as she expresses her true feelings. With her dark sense of humor and unwavering optimism, Peck informs us that although life can be gloomy, terrible, and even deceiving, it can also be lovely, enchanting, and full of promise. Peck delves beyond the subconscious. 9" x 12" Hardcover book with original dust jacket. 128 pages and signed by the artist.