09/01/2023
Opening Next Week | JoAnne Carson: Under the Stars | Sept. 8 - Oct. 14, 2023
JoAnne Carson's second exhibition with the Washburn Gallery will open Friday, Sept. 8th. Gallery hours are Tues-Sat, 10am-6pm.
“JoAnne Carson has said, ‘Disrupting illusion is in my blood.’ She was partly acknowledging Mark Rothko, to whom Carson’s mother had been married in the late 1930s. A few early Rothko’s, elusive and surrealist, presided over Carson’s childhood. But she was mostly speaking about her own enormously productive and inventive body of paintings, sculptures and hybrids, all of which play fast and loose with representation. Carson’s most recent paintings, however, have been doing their disrupting with more nuance and subterfuge. A newly legible grammar of light and space puts Carson’s deftly synthetic, retro-Pixar color at center stage. Seductive and sure-footed, these quasi-illusionistic landscapes have become, paradoxically, as moody and numinous as the most ambitious abstraction…” -David Brody, 2023
(Excerpt from "JoAnne Carson, Under the Stars 2022-2023," p. 3)
Image: "Lovestruck," 2023, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 58 in.
