BLEAK HOUSE 2010: NEW PAINTING BY GEORGIA CARTER
January 28, 2010, 8PM-10PM
MANIAC
741 New High Street
Los Angeles CA 90012
MANIAC opens the spring season with Bleak House 2010, new painting and drawing from San Francisco based artist Georgia Carter.
Created over the course of three seasons, the paintings and drawings in Bleak House work as a successor to a discarded (yet near) past. Known only through defunct visual documents containing snapshots of personal history and landscape, Carter revives these images for the sake of ‘looking backwards’. Working apart from transitory content or the disillusionment with material society, Carter’s images become spiritualized in large scale paintings as dark emblems of recessed times.
While on the horizon of the new decade, faring a contemporary depression and a social paradigm shift, 2010 begins a decade apart from the apocryphal realities of the late 1990s, a place where personal connection exceedingly became experienced via a third party, electronic infrastructure. Carter’s contemplative subject matter is built from a third party perspective as well, a generational construct which allays the immediate connection for one that is ritualized to its own retrospection.
While largely influenced by the history of landscape painting, Carter’s work delivers a contemporary allegory of a dark and stoic new age whose not so distant past (1970-current) seeks a revival of missing time or a cataloguing of the bygone. As landscape painting is interconnected with the revived spirituality of the elemental, Carter’s subjects are of a personal lineage, and sometimes without direct authorship.
The importance given to detail in each work is symbolic to Carter’s practice and aesthetic, which seeks to amend the contemporary obsession in art for idolatry and pop culture.
Georgia Carter received a BFA from California College for the Arts, San Francisco in 2008 after studying at Parson School of Design (New York, NY/Paris, France), and the Oxbow School (Napa, CA). Carter most recently exhibited at the Kansas City Institute of Arts and Maryland Institute College of Arts. Bleak House is Carter’s inaugural solo exhibition.
MANIAC
741 New High Street
Los Angeles CA 90012
MANIAC opens the spring season with Bleak House 2010, new painting and drawing from San Francisco based artist Georgia Carter.
Created over the course of three seasons, the paintings and drawings in Bleak House work as a successor to a discarded (yet near) past. Known only through defunct visual documents containing snapshots of personal history and landscape, Carter revives these images for the sake of ‘looking backwards’. Working apart from transitory content or the disillusionment with material society, Carter’s images become spiritualized in large scale paintings as dark emblems of recessed times.
While on the horizon of the new decade, faring a contemporary depression and a social paradigm shift, 2010 begins a decade apart from the apocryphal realities of the late 1990s, a place where personal connection exceedingly became experienced via a third party, electronic infrastructure. Carter’s contemplative subject matter is built from a third party perspective as well, a generational construct which allays the immediate connection for one that is ritualized to its own retrospection.
While largely influenced by the history of landscape painting, Carter’s work delivers a contemporary allegory of a dark and stoic new age whose not so distant past (1970-current) seeks a revival of missing time or a cataloguing of the bygone. As landscape painting is interconnected with the revived spirituality of the elemental, Carter’s subjects are of a personal lineage, and sometimes without direct authorship.
The importance given to detail in each work is symbolic to Carter’s practice and aesthetic, which seeks to amend the contemporary obsession in art for idolatry and pop culture.
Georgia Carter received a BFA from California College for the Arts, San Francisco in 2008 after studying at Parson School of Design (New York, NY/Paris, France), and the Oxbow School (Napa, CA). Carter most recently exhibited at the Kansas City Institute of Arts and Maryland Institute College of Arts. Bleak House is Carter’s inaugural solo exhibition.
