Exhibition Dates: April 16 – June 1, 2012
Opening Reception: April 18, 2012 6:30 – 8:30 pm

Carolyn Conrad

Carolyn Conrad earned her B.F.A from Massachusetts College of Art and her M.A fromNew YorkUniversity. A well-established artist, over the past 30 years Carolyn’s painting, sculpture, installation and photographic works have been exhibited at theDecordovaMuseumandSculpturePark, ICA Boston,FullerMuseum, as well as various galleries inNew Yorkand abroad. In addition, she has a piece on permanent view at the Bobst Library at NYU.

This exhibit deals with the idea of the American pastoral, contemplative life; constructed first as painting and sculpture, ultimately arriving as photographic representation. These naturally lit studio constructions evoke moods of romanticized isolation, about which the artist says:

I am interested in creating human dialogues using structures rather than people and steering naturalism towards abstraction.  Merging opposites is the basis of my working vocabulary. The viewer may question, “Are these places emerging or disappearing? Are they idyllic or menacing? Paintings or photographs?”