11/23/2025
Annie Montgomerie , "Trickle", fabric, wool, mixed media, 20.25 x 8 x 7 in (51.44 x 20.32 x 17.78 cm), on view at Haven Gallery.
View the entire "Reverie exhibition, curated by Beautiful Bizarre Magazine here: https://havengallery.com/portfolio/reverie-a-beautiful-bizarre-exhibition/
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Artist Statement:
My work drifts in the space between dream and waking, where reverie blurs the edges of what is tender and what is uncanny. This figure–a hybrid of cat and child–emerges as though from a half-remembered vision: dressed in soft ruffles, adorned with beads, and carrying whimsical knitted fish. At first glance, it feels playful, like a fairytale companion, yet its wide, unblinking eyes suggest something more haunting, as if it has wandered in from another realm.
I am drawn to the way reverie holds contradictions: comfort alongside unease, beauty alongside strangeness. In this suspended state, my characters resist fixed identity. They are not fully one thing or another, but beings in transition–embodying innocence, vulnerability, and transformation all at once.
By inhabiting this dreamlike threshold, my work invites viewers to linger in ambiguity, to allow wonder and discomfort to coexist. These figures are guardians of the in-between, companions of the subconscious, and reflections of the strange, layered worlds we carry within out own imaginations.