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Mermaid, Remembered Painting
United States
Painting, Acrylic on Plastic
Size: 29.5 W x 22 H x 3 D in
Ships in a Crate
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About The Artwork
Mermaid © 2020 Media: acrylic on clear plexiglass panels in boxes two boxes totaling 22 x 29-3/4 x 3 inches with 1-3/4" gap in between (56 x 76 x 7.5 cm with a 4.5 cm gap) framed: 28.5 x 36 inches (73 x 92 cm) This is a diptych (two panels side by side) made with transparent paint on light-filled clear plexiglass boxes. Each image appears double-exposed (two images layered together) with a transparent nautical chart faintly overlaid on both. The first impression is of the kaleidoscopic composition that the images make all together. The left-side panel appears to be a close-up of a white dinghy with rich amber-colored wood benches, trim, and an oar, with a cyan water background. Layered into that image is the blue-grey silhouette of a mermaid and an arrow pendant hanging in a window looking out of the gabled silhouette of a shack. The right-side is the view from under a leafy-green tree on sun-streaked shady grass looking onto a distant dock in sunshine and dazzling water with two small figures sitting together. Layered into that is the view out of French doors onto a porch with white columns and an curly-curved railing mortly in shade, looking onto a seascape in bright sunlight. Each image is painted twice, faintly, on both the front and the middle panel of the box, which adds up to the color saturation visible and provides parallax that intrigues the sense of depth, transparency, and light. As you stand closer to the painting, the nautical chart becomes visible and it reveals that, along with the assortment of place names and scattered abbreviations for the conditions that sailors will find for anchoring in a spot, such as rky, brk, sy, Foul, etc., there are also some phrases: Someone was round here asking questions about someone who looks like you I said I don't know where you are
Details & Dimensions
Multi-paneled Painting:Acrylic on Plastic
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:29.5 W x 22 H x 3 D in
Number of Panels:2
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Yes
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Carpenter was born in 1953 in Greenville, Delaware, U.S.A. He studied with the painter Tom Bostelle near home and then went to the Rhode Island School of Design, where he earned a BFA in Film, in 1976. His work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, P.S.1, New York, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Carpenter's painting style is a cross between old master techniques and expressionism. He makes marks with flicks of a fully-loaded palette knife, but to a precise rendering of hue and tone in a representational image. The image is built up in countless layers of oil glazes, much as Vermeer worked, only in thick impasto. Peeking through the layers are often the transparent traces of a map or poetry. This idea is borrowed from pentimento, the inherent feature of oil paint that, as it dries, it becomes more transparent, revealing what's underneath.
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