SQUEAK CARNWATH : LUCKY DOG
February 13 – March 24, 2015
Squeak Carnwath’s paintings are ruminations on time, place, and human existence. The act of painting is, for her, an affirmation of being. Carnwath’s repetition of symbols, shapes, and referential objects, which may at first seem to come from a random free-associative process, actually serves as an intentional device to illustrate the meditative undercurrent of the artist’s work. Carnwath employs a unique vocabulary of pictographs and hieroglyphs that construct a personal index of meaning while evoking the universal shared languages of loneliness, emotion and memory. This enduring vocabulary, which has remained consistent throughout Carnwath’s career, has returned through new iterations in the works that will be exhibited at Tayloe Piggott Gallery; candelabras, sinking ships, vinyl records, and loose-leaf text all make their way into this new body of work.
