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Article: Karen Carson at Rosamund Felsen. (Santa Monica).(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
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Our experience of nature has become so mediated by mini-malls, rest stops and water features that most of us can't really see the forest or the trees. In her most recent body of work, Karen Carson audaciously takes on the task of presenting nature in a way that is compatible with car-based consumer culture. The unusual mediums she chooses--vinyl banners and colorful lightboxes--are the vehicles of advertising, rededicated to the promotion of natural splendor.
Carson's 21 brightly hued paintings on vinyl were hung salon-style in a gallery furnished with plastic seating and a complementary-colored array of cheap oriental rugs. The works illusionistically depict ...