Project Description
Carole Silverstein
“My paintings embody an extravagant beauty. Using ornamentation from various cultures including Islamic geometries, Japanese cloud patterns, Spanish interlace, I am exploring ideas of sameness and difference, harmony and discord, the human and the divine. In taking these sacred and coded decorative languages into a new combination, I gracefully transverse fluid boundaries. It is a feminist and multicultural vision of inclusion, comparison, and disruption particularly poignant in this historical moment. The trance-like elaborate patterns are painted by hand, often traced through the translucent mylar and then altered. The process is repetitive, obsessive, and devotional. Responding to the contemporary speed of technology, the paintings invite a meditative slowness. The spatial experience seduces and allows for sensuous dreaming.”
Carole Silverstein is a Los Angeles based artist who received her MFA from Queens College CUNY and BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago with additional summer study in Umbria, Italy. Silverstein’s art has been shown in galleries and alternative venues throughout the United States, and was featured in We Must Risk Delight: 20 Artists from Los Angeles at the 2015 Venice Biennale, an official collateral exhibition. Her work also was in a traveling exhibition in London, Paris, Berlin, Manila, Cape Town, and Johannesburg. In addition to numerous private collections, her work is in The Salser Collection, Art for Healing, Art in US Embassies in Djibouti, and Citibank. Last year her prints were published in December Magazine, the Los Angeles Press and VoyageLA Magazine. In 2018 she traveled on an Art Research Grant to Andalusia, Spain & Morocco. Her newly published full-color Painting Catalogue with essay by Elizabeta Betinski of BardoLA is now available at the gallery and select fine art bookstores. Silverstein has been a Sponsored Artist with two Artist Materials Grants since 2016. She has been using Grafix Drafting Film as well as Daler Rowney’s Acrylic Inks for many years, and wishes to thank them for providing materials for this show.
our mingling spirits is Silverstein’s second exhibition with Nancy Toomey Fine Art.
