Under the blue

under

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One day erases the next each cloud covers the light tomorrow awaits under the blue.

For Lucy All is impossible without you..

Einleuchten,1989 curated by Harold Szeemann Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

Studio visits.

I got a call that I would have a studio visit on Saturday . I had no idea who was coming , I was just happy to have a visit after years of solitude in the studio. The year was 1988 , 8 years after I left college.

We had moved from L.A. to NYC in 1984, 4 years after leaving Art Center in Pasadena where I studied illustration. I spent 4 years after college painting and trying to make ends meet doing illustrations jobs when I could get them, also teaching drawing and managing the apartment complex we were living raising our two daughters. When we all moved east in 1984 We had no jobs lined up and $2,000 . I continued to look for illustration jobs and would spend my nights painting in the “Attic” studio in Cliffside Park, New Jersey 6 miles from the Lincoln tunnel and NYC. I had 2 friends who where painters that I knew well , both also had just moved out east. Steve Reidell and Joo Chung where my community, besides them I knew no other painter. And at this time no one was showing what we made and we had no idea on how that would happen, or realistically if ever.

In 1987 I entered another contest, this one was at City Without Walls in Newark N.J. I paid $40 to enter. Some weeks earlier I had been rejected from a small works show at NYU , I was feeling pretty down. A couple days later I received a phone call telling me that I had won first place , $50 and that one of the judge’s the gallerist Stephan Stux would like to visit my studio.

The other juror was the writer and crtic Peter Frank.

A few weeks later Stephan was in my studio, it was at that time one of the first studio visits I had. He left with 4 small paintings under his arms. Arriving back at his gallery on 155 Spring St. he hung the small paintings. Minutes later off the elevator walked the Swiss collector Thomas Ammann along with Ruth Kaufmann. they where there to see another artist work Holt Quentel and stumbled upon my paintings. He bought what he saw.

My studio was modest in size, a little larger than what I had started with a year earlier. My gallerist arrived with three others. They stayed for sometime engaged and talking amongst themselves and spending a fair amount of time in front of my paintings. After the visit my galleriest called me and told me who they where. The three were Konrad Fischer, Jan Hoet and Harald Szeemann.

Some weeks later I received an invitation to participle in Harald Szeemanns exhibition in Hamburg Germany “Einleuchten”. My life was forever changed just as it was that rainy evening in Newark , N.J. when I drove there with 4 small paintings in the trunk of my car.

Lawrence Carroll Bolsena, Italy July 19. 2016

Pages 6-7 works for documenta 9 Kassel, Germany 1992 Kassel, Germany Curator: Jan Hoet

1993 Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, MÜnchengladbach, Germany curated by Dierk Stemmler

Museum Folkwang Essen Germany Ludwig Musuem Dr. and Mrs. Jung Collection Aachen, Germany

Buchmann Gallery Basel. CH 1994

Galerie Buchmann , Basel CH 1994 Opposite: Galerie Buchmann, Koln 1996

Buchmann Galerie Koln 2000 Opposite page: Buchmann Galerie Koln 1998

Shadow paintings Galerie Buchmann. Koln 2002

opposite page “dust prop freeze” Buchmann Berlin 2009 “back to the cave” Buchmann Berlin 2013

Buchmann Galerie AgraWall Works , 2008, Yellow Works, 2010 Buchmann Galerie, Agra “Flowers for you” , Buchmann Galerie Agra, 2015

“I want to go home” Buchmann Lugano 2017

Marquette MI. Lake Superior Studio winter 2016 preperation for exhibition L A Louvre Gallery , Los Angeles

Wallace Stevens Sunday Morning

robert frost to the thawing wind

robert frost to the thawing wind

Marquette .MI Lake Superior studio 2016

Under the blue Buchmann Berlin 2017

under the blue Galerie Buchmann Berlin 2017

Marquette , MI Lake Superior studio 2016

special thanks Petra Giloy-Hirtz Terry Myers