Flying Buttress

Susan Zwinger's "Flying Buttress" is a humerous twist on the long standing tradition of artists in New Mexico making work about the San Fancisco de Asis mission church at Rancho's de Taos. Many modern artists were drawn to the looming organic forms of the church's adobe buttresses. Zwinger takes her title in part from this architectural feature, but also calls back to the concept of flying buttresses of gothic cathedrals. She brings humor annd a sense of the surreal by displacing the buttresses, allowing them to fly around the composition, and adding a fish to the church in their place.