Oceanside Museum of Art Beach Grass

Beach Grass IX               30x48"               thrown acrylic paint on canvas                   2014

I am honored to announce that Beach Grass IX was chosen for exhibit at the
Oceanside Museum of Art
San Diego Dreaming exhibit, March thru June 2015
Reception March 7 6-8pm
private collection

Laguna Gallery of Contemporary Art, Laguna Beach

 Autumn I is in the front window

 

Wild Mustard 4.'x11.7' , thrown acrylic house paint on canvas  2010

 

 



Autumn I, 5x7'  thrown acrylic house paint on canvas 2010
featured in the front window of the LGOCA

Both of these paintings mean a great deal to me. They were created while I was staying with my mother in the 'country' of Ventura. She was terminally ill and I was carrying for her. I did not have a studio there, so these pieces, which captured the wild nature of my physical and emotional surroundings so beautifully, were thrown outside. They had to remain on the ground for days at a time, while I built up the paint, during that time, birds, dogs, squirrels, and the occasional peacock would run or peck their ways across. Imprinted in the paintings are remnants of these visits.
Thank you LGOCA for featuring them so prominently.
 

Laguna Gallery of Contemporary Art/ wild mustard

wild mustard  iv        36x48"     thrown acrylic on canvas       2013

available through
Laguna Gallery of Contemporary Art
Laguna Beach, CA

sold private party

brochure cover 2013

 detail

 

"In this body of work, referencing art history, one is astonished to consider the possibility that Carey has wrest the technique of Pollock back to visual purpose of Seurat, using splattered brushwork as Seurat made use of the dot to quest after capturing fully life and nature in a kind of abstract impressionist painting."  NY art critic, Robert Mahoney 

 

 

Laguna Gallery of Contemporary Art

 

 

         poppies      36x48"      thrown acrylic house paint on canvas      2014

 

available through
Laguna Gallery of Contemporary Art 
Laguna Beach
exhibition and representation

I am very pleased to announce that my work is being represented and exhibited by The Laguna Gallery of Contemporary Art in Laguna Beach California .

 

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.