Carolyn Martin "Private Corners"
A.I.R. Gallery
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A.I.R. Gallery announces Private Corners, an exhibition of new work by Carolyn Martin. Continuing the investigations begun in drawings exhibited at A.I.R. Gallery in 2009, Carolyn Martin has further de-emphasized the image of the white picket fence, reducing it to a spare scaffolding of faint lines, darkened just enough to be recognizable. Martin juxtaposes these horizontal and vertical lines against irregular shapes of collaged paper crisscrossed in all directions with dark, smeared charcoal strokes that create “deep” spaces. In these spaces Martin gives us a glimpse of the complexity and chaos of human life behind the stable architecture of society.
In addition, Martin was selected for the 2011 Anyone Can Fly printmaking scholarship founded by Faith Ringgold. An edition of the print that Martin created during the scholarship, “Sharing Wealth,” will be available at the gallery.
Martin has exhibited in solo shows in New York City since 1989. She has also exhibited at the J.B. Speed Art Museum in Louisville Kentucky; the African American Museum in Dallas, Texas; Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia; ACA Galleries in New York; the Muscarelle Museum at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia; the 2B Gallery in Budapest, Hungary; the Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts in Racine, Wisconsin; and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago among others. Martin holds a B.F.A. from the University of Wisconsin, attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and earned her M.F.A. from Pratt Institute in New York. She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and City College in New York City.
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Schedule
from April 26, 2012 to May 20, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-04-26 from 18:00 to 21:00