Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Cara-Lyn Morgan





Cara-Lyn showed with the crawl last year with a series of paintings about slave ships and their relationship to her identity. Cara-Lyn is also a gifted writer and will be showing new paintings as part of the event. Below is her artist statement.

The series is called Dialogue. Through a collection of abstract/representational paintings, I intend to focus on the dialogue thatexists between colours, between the texture of materials and the painting’ssurface, between artist and artwork, viewer and painting, and of course thedialogue that springs between viewers as they stand before a painting. I became fascinated by the spontaneousdebates that arose while touring the major art galleries of New York City wherepeople from all over the world meander from room to room, commenting on colour,texture, and subject.

In this series, I am experimenting more with medium than with subject—integrating beeswax and acrylic paint, moving away from the more deliberately representational subject matter of my past (the slave ship) to amore “abstract” focus. I’m also using the grain elevator as a subject in some of the paintings, integrating an iconic prairie image with a graffiti style. This is the focus, a combining of old ideas with new ones, old images with new styles, and the conversation that erupts when opposing ideas are integrated.

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