Claudia Cave: Interiors and Interiority

Claudia Cave, who grew up in Salem, makes drawings and paintings whose subjects range “from spiky female figures to zooming canines and occasional cats to smoothly excavated landscape forms.” Cave loves interiors, rendered in meticulous detail, and she often shows cross sections of houses. Tiny women populate them like toys in a dollhouse or figures in an architectural drawing. Guest curator Roger Hull says, “Cave’s focus on interiors can lead her further inward, to the realm of interiority – the psychic zone of thoughts, dreams, ennui, and sometimes apprehension.”