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Elder
Art Gallery presents
"Woman,
Water, Rome, Italy"
featuring
Carole Robb
Opening
reception: Friday, March 5, 2004
Elder Art Gallery in Charlotte's Historic South End District
presents a new series of paintings by internationally recognized
artist, Carole Robb.
Robb was born in Scotland and studied painting at the Glasgow
School of Art and the University of Reading, England. She
currently lives and works in Venice, Italy and London, England.
She was a Fulbright Scholar to the United States and most
recently operated a painting studio in New York City.
Robb's work has been shown in galleries in Germany, Italy,
England and the United States. She has been included in exhibitions
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Alternative Tate
Gallery; and The Institute of Contemporary Arts, England.
Ms. Robb has paintings in the collections of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York; the Tate Gallery, London; and The
Museum of Modern Art, Rome.
The paintings in the exhibition were inspired by the artist's
visit to Rome in 2003. New York City art critic, David Cohen,
recently wrote of Robb's work, "Woman in proximity to
water is Carole Robb's current pictorial subject, and her
painting can be understood philosophically in corresponding
terms, as the relationship of essential to the elemental.
For sure, her women are actual and specific people, drawn
from life, replete with the unique energy of an individual
observed in real time. But her conception of Woman is also
classical. That she reclines among Roman ruins and upon Renaissance
balconies is anything but gratuitous, nor is it a coincidence
that the Apollo Belevedere is almost life-like while the living
model sunbathing within his gaze is Maillolesque in her timelessness
and placidity."
In addition to the large oil paintings on canvas the exhibition
will include a number of charcoal landscape drawings completed
during the artist's time in Rome.
A reception for the artist will be held on Friday, March 5,
2004 from 6:00 p.m. until 9 p.m. Woman, Water, Rome, Italy
will run through April 30, 2004.
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