Carolyn Carr/ Photographs
Opening:
Friday, April 15
From 6 - 8 pm
April 15 – June 18, 2011
Jackson Fine Art
3115 East Shadowlawn Avenue
Atlanta, Georgia 30305
www.jacksonfineart.com
Carolyn Carr is a native Atlantan known for her compelling abstract paintings of interwoven curvilinear lines that are derived from captured graffiti signatures which act as signifiers for content. Graffiti as an unknown font is hard to follow but is recognizable as a mark of self-expression via a personal signature. Carrs’ interest in text and narrative has been an ongoing and vital component to her work that has been explored through her titles and literary references. In this exhibition she continues to reference culturally significant printed material but from a wide range of sources spanning historical periods, platforms, and means of distribution.
Carr's work derives from the particular brand of heritage-steeped innovation native in the South where identity has been erected in between the columns of constructed memory and urban evolution. This exhibition reintroduces the artist’s interest in photography with complex mixed media compositions of photo-collage, found photographs, and over painted photographs. Carr manipulates pictures she has taken, found, and appropriated to create a ripe non-linear narrative that is evocative yet enigmatic.
Recognizable cultural and art historical references are rampant in this work, but the way in which Carr is intent on layering the South’s troubled history with the vibrancy of contemporary Atlanta is very much her own.
Carolyn Carr received her BFA from the Atlanta College of Art (with a focus on Photography). Her work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries including Gavlak (New York, Palm Beach), Artists Space (New York), 10 Chancery Lane (Hong Kong), National Museum of Women (Washington D.C.), the Contemporary, David Heath and Fay Gold (Atlanta). In 2010 she completed a site-specific Flux.org work entitled, Tomorrow is Another Day. In addition to her studio practice Carr is on a number of institutional boards as well as being an activist for local community and political organizations.
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An Interview with Carolyn Carr: Columns, Cars, Southern Culture
BY KAREN TAUCHES MAY 20, 2011 for Burnaway Atlanta