Artist Information:
Grace Vasta-Carr
Manchester, MA
United States
Member Since: Oct 2003
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Artist Statement:
Visit the artist's website at
www.vastacarr.com.
I enjoy painting gardens.
Gardens are a subject loaded
with metaphorical associations
and of course, color. When I
look at a piece of land that
someone has put a lot of love
and work into, it calls to
mind how we carefully tend our
own lives, pruning here,
planting seeds there. In our
gardens as in ourselves, what
we set in motion may turn out
differently from our well laid
plans. Sometimes, what we try
to irradicate is more
important to the whole than
we realize. Dark defines
light and vice versa, in
gardens and in us.
As I work on a painting, I
allow the shapes to develop
and change, to suggest other
forms, to move. Forms are
purposely kept ambiguous:
just as nature in in constant
flux, so our thoughts move and
change constantly, making new
connections....
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Artist Exhibitions:
4th Annual Frances N. Roddy
Exhibition, Concord Art
Association, Concord, MA,
curator: John Moore. Awarded
1st Prize.
Valdosta National, Fine Arts
Gallery, Valdosta State
University, GA.
Art of th Northeast,
Silvermine Guild Arts Center,
New Canaan, CT, curator: Lisa
Messinger, Metropolitan Museum
of Art.
Berkshire Art Association
Exhibition of Painting ...
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Artist Galleries:
Art Advisory/Boston,
www.artadvisoryboston,com
BostonArt, 330 Congress St.,
Boston, MA
www.bostonartinc.com
Copley Society, 158 Newbury
St., Boston, MA,
www.copleysociety.org
Cambridge Art Association, 25
Lowell St., Cambridge, MA
www.cambridgeart.org
Concord Art Association, 37
Lexington Rd., Concord, MA
www.concordart.org
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Artist Reviews:
"Richly textured, luminous,
crisp landscape in which
entire painting surface is
alive and glowing." --John
Moore, curator 4th Annual
Frances N. Roddy Exhibition.
9-2003
"Vasta-Carr,..., exhibits some
of her intricate slices of
garden life, interesting as
much for her emmotional
treatment of flowers, as for
the negative space...
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Collections:
The Sonesta International
Hotels Corporation,
Boston, MA, USA
Cambridgeport Bank,
Brighton, MA, USA
Artwork in the DeCordova
Museum Corporate Art Program,
on loan to numerous
corporations throughout the
greater Boston area.
Private collections in
USA,Canada, and Italy....
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Grace Vasta-Carr's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Grace Vasta-Carr's Portfolio.
Visit the artist's website at www.vastacarr.com.
I enjoy painting gardens. Gardens are a subject loaded with metaphorical associations and of course, color. When I look at a piece of land that someone has put a lot of love and work into, it calls to mind how we carefully tend our own lives, pruning here, planting seeds there. In our gardens as in ourselves, what we set in motion may turn out differently from our well laid plans. Sometimes, what we try to irradicate is more important to the whole than we realize. Dark defines light and vice versa, in gardens and in us.
As I work on a painting, I allow the shapes to develop and change, to suggest other forms, to move. Forms are purposely kept ambiguous: just as nature in in constant flux, so our thoughts move and change constantly, making new connections.... |
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