In Curandera Hera with Zuess and a PBJ, as with much of Larissa Bates's work, the artist conjures a mythic familial past in which fantasy and lived experience coalesce. Drawing on influences as varied as Leonora Carrington, Persian miniature painting, and Mexican biombo screens, Bates mines her bicultural upbringing, bridging the cloud forests of Costa Rica with rural Vermont to create richly patterned, dreamlike paintings that defy categorization.
