Carole Turbin "Memories of Home"
Brooklyn Public Library (Central)
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This exhibition consists of works on paper, tonal drawings and lithographs of domestic interiors and urban scenes from my Brooklyn home and neighborhood. They are familiar to people living in urban neighborhoods surrounded by aging buildings and environments, some of which are fading or gone, but remembered.
My pictures combine precise representations of familiar objects with the mood and psychological meanings that are both apparent and beneath the surface. Sinks are bathed in light, revealing surfaces of porcelain with metal faucets, while pipes beneath are shadowed and connected to hidden areas behind walls and in gritty basements. In my work, plumbing is a metaphor for all that is going on within our physical bodies and psyches—seen and unseen, felt and unfelt, efficient and problematic. Pipes are conduits of necessary fluid and waste whose operation cannot be consciously controlled.
Carole Turbin is an artist and writer who works primarily on paper doing lithography, as well as drawings in charcoal, graphite and wax resist—a mixed-media technique. She has exhibited in New York City—most recently at the Affordable Art Fair—and on Long Island at Gallery North, Stony Brook and the Long Island Museum. She earned a B.F.A. from Queens College; studied painting and drawing at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Art Students League of New York; and earned a doctorate in sociology from the New School for Social Research. In the 1990s she returned to fine arts after 30 years of college teaching, research and writing on the social history of everyday life, especially women's family, household and workplace experience.
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from April 19, 2011 to June 25, 2011