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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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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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Reviews for Grace Vasta-Carr:
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"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 between them. On the whole, expecially in her larger works, they function like a masterful poem in paint, where the real and the abstract meet and become one." --Otto Peter Erbar, The Lowell Sun 4-8-98
"Counterpointed, both light and dark struggle for attention, with bright flashes of color peeking out surprising the eye as they trace complicated patterns....hence , the gentle curves and strokes of love, the sharply contrasting harshness of anger, and everything disturbing or comforting, appear." --Linda Steinbach, The Connector (U-Mass publication) 9-16-97
"From Lillies,...by Grace Vasta-Carr,...the viewer derives satisfaction from the artists' artfulness and skill...represent the 'resurgence of painting nationwide," Hoptman said." --Mary Bell, The South Advocate 9-30-98
"...rich palette expressed in loose marks spilliing across the picture plane, recreate the shapes and colors and textures of a cottage garden that literally fills the eye." --Gloria Russell, Sunday Republican, 4-23-95
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