Andalusia Fictions Marisa Newman Projects
February 1 – March 17, 2018
"Feathers circle the trees, longing to land"
Carolyn Carr is a multimedia artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work addresses the struggle to establish personal identity and a coming to terms with southern heritage. Through a slow making process, Carr deliberately creates objects - paintings, artist books, pinhole cameras, short films, or clay sculptures, hand built or on the wheel - by reenacting cultural traditions common to domestic life. Through these meditations, Carr aptly reconsiders the responsibility of her rich history and legacy. These issues are not exclusive to the South, many grapple with them, but the Southern States have been the battleground. Through her work Carr hopes to articulate these histories and relationships in an effort to initiate reconciliation.
The current exhibition was completed during an artist residency at Andalusia, the family homestead of author Flannery O’Connor, in Baldwin County, Georgia. While in residence Carr constructed a series of abstract narratives to illustrate the conflicts she sees as inherent to southern life. Carr deliberately references the rich literature, O’Connor, William Faulkner, or Carson McCullers, of her native south in her conflicting themes of love versus hate, freedom versus enslavement, good versus evil, or life versus death.
Gallery hours for this exhibition will be Wednesday through Friday, 1 – 6 pm, and by appointment.
Vegas behind the Church, 2016-2018
Unique Silver Gelatin Print, Sepia Toned
9.25 x 8 inches print size, 14.5 x 15.75 inches artist’s frame
Flannery’s Pink Room 2015-2018
Unique Silver Gelatin Print
14 x 9.5 inches print size, 14.5 x 19 inches artist’s frame
Private Woods on Cascade I, 2016-2018
Unique Silver Gelatin Print, Sepia Toned
10 x 8 inches print size, 14.5 x 12.5 inches artist’s frame
Private Woods on Cascade II, 2016-2018
Unique Silver Gelatin Print, Sepia Toned
10 x 8 inches print size, 14.5 x 12.5 inches artist’s frame
Handstyle 2016-2018
Unique Silver Gelatin Print, Sepia Toned
10 x 8 inches print size, 17.75 x 15 inches artist’s frame
Andrew at Bloody Bay, 1990-2017
Unique Silver Gelatin Print, Sepia Toned
4.5 x 5.5 inches print, 7 x 8 inches artist’s frame
The Reader, 2017-2018
Unique Silver Gelatin Print, Sepia Toned
4 x 4 inches print, 6.5 x 6.5 artist’s frame
Landing, 2016-2018
Unique Silver Gelatin Print, Sepia Toned
12 x 10 inches print size, 17.75 x 15.5 artist’s frame
Fruit Tree, 2017- 2018
Unique Silver Gelatin Print, Sepia Toned
10 x 8 inches print size, 17.75 x 16 inches artist’s frame
Kenny on Peachtree, 2016-2018
Unique Silver Gelatin Print, Sepia Toned
12 x 10 inches print size (Collage), 17.75 x 16 artist’s frame
Island Hunter, 2017-2018
Unique Silver Gelatin Print, Sepia Toned
10 x 8 inches print size , 14.5 x 12.5 artist’s frame
Her Feathers, 2017-2018
Unique Silver Gelatin Print, Sepia Toned
10 x 8 inches print size, 14.5 x 12.5 inches artist’s frame
Circling Feathers, 1994–2018
Unique Silver Gelatin Print, Sepia Toned
3.5 x 5.5 print size inches, 6 x 8 inches artist’s frame
Riverside, 1990–2018
Unique Silver Gelatin Print, Sepia Toned
4 x 4 print size inches, 6.5 x 6.5 inches artist’s frame
My Muse, 1991-2018
Unique Silver Gelatin Print, Sepia Toned (collage)
19.75 x 8 inches, 14.5 x 10 inches Artist’s Frame
Sideways Views, 2016-2018
Unique Silver Gelatin Print, Sepia Toned
4.75 x 3.25 inches, 5 x 6.5 inches artist’s Frame
Front Porch 2017-2018
Unique Silver Gelatin Print, Sepia Toned
10 x 8 inches, 14.5 x 12.5 inches artist’s Frame
Lime Tree, 2017-2018
Unique Silver Gelatin Print, Sepia Toned
10 x 8 inches, 14.5 x 12.5 inches artist’s frame
Feather Light, 2012-2014
Collection of Three Vessels with Shelf
12.5 x 10.25 x 18.5
Ceramic, cold glaze
Engraved with makers mark and date on bottom
Redemption