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Cenotaph for Holly Painting
United States
Painting, Oil on Wood
Size: 37.5 W x 42 H x 21 D in
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About The Artwork
This multimedia piece becomes sculptural as it extends into space. Sitting flush against the wall, is a dark blue panel with the painting of a cropped view of a “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” poster. A found telephone is adhered on the lower right corner. Painted diagonally, extending from the upper left to the bottom right of the painting is an abstracted pattern reminiscent of the shadows that are cast as light floods a window. A glass panel with the openings of a ticket booth sits in a wooden frame on three sides, as it it's been sliced through top to bottom. It extends out at a 90-degree angle. Sitting on a ledge at the bottom of the glass frame is a flip-card animation that spins in an old rolodex.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Oil on Wood
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:37.5 W x 42 H x 21 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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Carpenter was born in 1953 in Greenville, Delaware, U.S.A. He studied with the painter Tom Bostelle near home and then went to the Rhode Island School of Design, where he earned a BFA in Film, in 1976. His work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, P.S.1, New York, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Carpenter's painting style is a cross between old master techniques and expressionism. He makes marks with flicks of a fully-loaded palette knife, but to a precise rendering of hue and tone in a representational image. The image is built up in countless layers of oil glazes, much as Vermeer worked, only in thick impasto. Peeking through the layers are often the transparent traces of a map or poetry. This idea is borrowed from pentimento, the inherent feature of oil paint that, as it dries, it becomes more transparent, revealing what's underneath.
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