Cynthia Carlson: Sixty Years
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Author: Carlson, Cynthia
The first comprehensive volume on Cynthia Carlson, a key artist of the Pattern & Decoration group. As this catalogue explores, Carlson’s artistic identity continues to morph: from room-size wallpaper and a life-size gingerbread house to unexpected shaped canvasses, architectural constructions and pet portraits. Whatever she creates, however eccentric, it is high-spirited, genial and insightful.Carlson's utilization of architectural motifs might align at one moment with the vernacular embraced in the buildings of Venturi & Scott Brown and, at another, with the postmodern rehabilitation of Beaux-Arts ornament. Her interest in the domestic—as a source of shapes and as a realm of familial experiences, chores and memories—intersects with the works of contemporaries ranging from Jennifer Bartlett to Joel Shapiro and Elizabeth Murray. Too, her hand-painted “wallpaper” is considered a significant contribution and influence on contemporary installation art. A Chicagoan under the influence of the Chicago Imagists, Carlson landed in New York City in 1965 and has exhibited widely (she was included in Lucy Lippard’s seminal 1971 exhibition 26 Contemporary Women Artists at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art).
ISBN 9781636811079. D.A.P.. pb. 224 pages. 280 colour, 10 b/w ills. 27.9 x 27.9 cm.
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The first comprehensive volume on Cynthia Carlson, a key artist of the Pattern & Decoration group. As this catalogue explores, Carlson’s artistic identity continues to morph: from room-size wallpaper and a life-size gingerbread house to unexpected shaped canvasses, architectural constructions and pet portraits. Whatever she creates, however eccentric, it is high-spirited, genial and insightful.Carlson's utilization of architectural motifs might align at one moment with the vernacular embraced in the buildings of Venturi & Scott Brown and, at another, with the postmodern rehabilitation of Beaux-Arts ornament. Her interest in the domestic—as a source of shapes and as a realm of familial experiences, chores and memories—intersects with the works of contemporaries ranging from Jennifer Bartlett to Joel Shapiro and Elizabeth Murray. Too, her hand-painted “wallpaper” is considered a significant contribution and influence on contemporary installation art. A Chicagoan under the influence of the Chicago Imagists, Carlson landed in New York City in 1965 and has exhibited widely (she was included in Lucy Lippard’s seminal 1971 exhibition 26 Contemporary Women Artists at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art).
ISBN 9781636811079. D.A.P.. pb. 224 pages. 280 colour, 10 b/w ills. 27.9 x 27.9 cm.
available