Carrie Patterson, the Painting Center

These paintings are self-possessed of a generic urban or architectural sensibility.  But Carrie Patterson turns the order of all that on edge and 

Carrie Patterson, the Painting Center

then humanizes it with a combination of mostly muted colors with a splash of brighter hues.  The work breaks out into two categories of approach: painted canvases and painted paper collage.  The former is more refined in addressing the subject matter via a traditional painterly approach.  The collage work offers an alternative physicality created by the layering of the painted pieces of paper.  In contrast to the paintings which present a depictive handling of the subject matter, the collage work offers a more tactile, �realistic� rendering.  Realism here is understood to mean within a painterly context of form, color and texture.  The show is well presented with a good balance between the number of paintings, �breathing space� between each and a good variety of proportions between the canvases.

Carrie Patterson, the Painting Center