Claude Carone “Recent Paintings”
Washburn Gallery
[Image: Claude Carone "Untitled" (2019) acrylic and cardboard on wood, 27 x 24 in.]
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“…Carone also uses corrugated cardboard as a collage element. In Neo-Platonic thought the outer skin is just a container that covers the soul. The physical, the earthly, the apparent reality, is a shell, that when removed will release the spirit within. The flayed skin, with sagging self-portrait, in Michelangelo’s Last Judgment is an image of this, an exhausted husk longing for spiritual fulfillment. So, it is in these paintings with the corrugated cardboard. When the outer layer is removed, the form is exposed and the spirit within is released. It is the incarnation of cardboard. Humble earthly materials take on a metaphysical mystical existence…”
-Kim Sloane, February, 2020, Copake, NY
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from October 01, 2020 to December 05, 2020