| Wanna Buy a Duck? |
March 2 – April 21, 2012 |
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| Show Description: Carr’s paintings are rendered with deft strokes and a seemingly innate sense of composition and color. Above all else, however, Carr depicts a world that is ripe with unsettled meaning. Having grown up Jewish in the Mississippi Delta during the height of the Civil Rights struggle, Carr is a highly perceptive observer of the tensions and anomalies of everyday life. In paintings that draw freely from disparate sources, such as old postcards, photographic self-portraits, vaudeville performers, children’s masks and toys, and ordinary objects (tacos, anyone?) that turn up out of context, Carr makes hay out of the visual clutter of modern American culture. The result is a two-dimensional form of screwball comedy that pulsates with energy. |
