Anne Marble Caramanico
Quintessential Color
March 21 - April 10, 2009
Reception:
Thursday March 26, 2009 6-8 PM
Press Release
Anne Caramanico intimately understands the natural world. An environmental biologist as well as a painter, she approaches art as a listener and an observer. Her textured, organic paintings evidence her attention to nature, expressing the ethereality and kinesthesia of the world around us. Caramanico marries her scientific understanding with intuition, resulting in paintings that imbue the actuality of nature with a sense of transcendent meaning. Not only do rotund bodies of forms reference living organisms; they reference community and vitality as well as the intangibles that shape people’s lives. Passage, whirring, stillness, silence, reverberation—all of these emerge in Caramanico’s handling of paint and color and her paintings ultimately embody the experience of living as a natural body in a natural world.
Anne Caramanico seeks to seamlessly merge science, art and nature. Her experiences studying environments in Cambodia, Mexico, Canada and the United States have shaped her approach to art-making. She currently lives in Pennsylvania and has exhibited nationally.
Artist Statement
At the core of my work is a need to express an emotional contact with living things, some of it coming out of earlier days of wading in the cold waters of northern Canada, or later, peering through a microscope at a wild array of dancing microorganisms, complete with tiny beating hearts and peddling appendages.
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