CONTINUING AND RECOMMENDED EXHIBITIONS

May, 2007




Karen Carson, "Giddy Up Ol' Paint II," 2006, acrylic on tycore, 45 3/4 x 71".

Karen Carson's older styles can be seen in several of the women's art shows that are on view all over LA. We know her for this clever text work, and most recently for works on silk that showed smoldering forests either caught in sunset or ablaze--it almost didn't matter which because the message seemed to be the movement of paint and intense color across the glossy cloth surfaces she'd chosen for her last show. The artist continues this idea of primordial woods under duress, adding apocalyptic winged horses that are alive and terrifying. Into these fields she injects flat, contrasting silhouettes of oblivious urbanites who invoke cutouts as they're bracketed against the frothy style she uses to depict nature. The artist shares her time between her Venice studio and a ranch in Montana, so the sublime beauty of land and beast was bound to become a subject (Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica).