Paintings in Public Settings

 The environment frequently determines the visual impact on the viewer. Where something is seen often determines the value and viability of art. Location, location, location.

 

The Gallery at The Brooks, Oceanside

shown with sculpture by Julia C R Gray

The Currant Restaurant, Hotel Sofia, San Diego 

The Picture Art Foundation, CSUDH 

 



Japanese Friendship Garden, San Diego

Japanese Friendship Garden, San Diego

 

Nadine Baurin Fine Art, Leucadia

Culture Inside Gallery, Luxembourg

works have also been exhibited and collected throughout Southern California and the nation including, Washington DC, New York and Los Angeles

Paintings in their Home Settings

I have always believed that the viewer is an integral part of the painting process. The environment also inserts itself on the paintings visual effect.  Though the painting remains the same, each visual effect is as individual as it's owners. Below are a few paintings in their home settings.

 

 

 

  Los Angeles
the painting contributes to rooms the environment

 San Diego
 the wall was painted to enhance the painting

 NY
the room was designed with the painting as a focal point
Michael P of Michael P Designs consulted on this interior

Family Trees

Family Trees are sets of painted canvas blocks that together make up an  impressionistic image of a tree. Singularly, the blocks stand alone as a part of the tree, each piece retaining the essence of the tree, while the whole gives the essence and image. Family Trees are exhibited as an entire tree, or separated into 'branches' of the tree (if separated, family member, friends, people with commonalities can each have a branch of the tree, while still being a part of the larger tree).
The original family tree was the 21 piece, Cherry Blossom montage. Rather than going to an individual family, Cherry Blossom montage resides with the worlds family. Individual canvas blocks now reside in numerous homes and institutions around the US and the world, including,  Pennsylvania, New York, Florida, California and Tokyo.

 single canvas block from the family tree, retains the essence of the tree.

Laguna Gallery of Contemporary Art / winter woods

winter woods     36x24"       thrown acrylic paint on canvas        2014

available through
Laguna Gallery of Contemporary Art
Laguna Beach, CA
Beverly Hills artShow  2014

"Carey is intent on bringing to canvas the fullness of the visual response of an artist to the complex facture of bushes, branches, grasses and other wild vegetation. Right away, exploring the scales of branching in terms of size and thickness all but with a chaos theoretician’s enthusiasm for the fractal infinities of nature, Carey has developed a wide, straight, branch-like stroke, then thin, fragile, wavering, leaf-like stroke, and every variation in between."  Robert Mahoney, NY art critic 

 

Nadine Baurin Fine Art/ throwing autumn

 

 

 

autumn woods    36x24"   thrown acrylic on canvas  2014

 

available through

Nadine Baurin Fine Art

Leucadia, CA

autumn woods

 

private collection

 

"Carey's gestural impressionism results in views that remain in our thoughts long

after we have seen them, making her an artist of genuine accomplishment."  Johnathan Goodman , NY art critic

 

 



 

Beverly Hills artShow/ sakura fubuki

 

sakura fubuki (cherry blossom storm)     66x96"     thrown paint on canvas     2013

 

Japanese Friendship Garden  solo exhibit  2013

Beverly Hills artShow   2014



 

 

Thank you to all who made these shows successful events. It is through the support of collectors, patrons, galleries, museums and critics that I am able to continue in my art world. It is through the joy of viewers that I thrive.

 

"Carey has wrest the technique of Pollock back to visual purpose of Seraut"

Robert Mahoney, N.Y. art critic

 

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jacaranda

  

jacaranda   48x48" thrown paint on canvas 2014

Beverly Hills artShow   2014

jacaranda has taken over two years to complete. not because it was a bad painting,  there have been more precise renderings of a tree, but none portrayed what i am trying to portray as an artist.

i throw paint. which lends a quality of chaos i wouldn't get if i applied it differently. it is in that chaos that i try to discover the essence of the subject matter, not the subject matter itself. the painting on top is an impressionist view of a jacaranda, not a photographic one.  i am an impressionist with an abstract technique. my work should reflect that. this jacaranda, with it's impasto texture, and pointillist nature now does just that.

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one of it's multiple renderings..