Molly Vidor: in Willamette Week

Molly Vidor's raw, gusty work might leave her best described as a punk rock painter. She's toyed with pure abstraction over the years, but in Honeydrippers she brings back floral work. In works like Dark Ranunculus and Flavor Hearts, she shreds the notion of the standard still life with visceral black plums on a near-monochrome backdrop. It's as if she is channeling the siren song of Lydia Lunch in the 1983 film Vortex. The artist's fascination with the succulent flesh of white peaches, after all these years, obviously steals desire itself, as they sear before disappearing. -TJ Norris