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Artist Statement:
"I work on series of collaged and pigmented paintings on board,
drawing from primitive and modernist traditions. In my use of a personal
and iconographic language, I score, scrape, abrade and mark, creating
rough textured surfaces. Washes of pigment are added, destining the
surfaces and infusing them with power and presence.
My "marks" are often combined or integrated with lines or
grids, creating structures or suggesting organizational systems. Patterns
emerge or disappear, or pulsate. I work to capture the moment where
what is known flows into the obscure, and an "imperfect balance"
is achieved."
- Carol Dalton
Bio:
I was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Carpinteria, a small town near
Santa Barbara. From 1971 to 1974, I studied at the Santa Barbara Art
Institute, working towards a B.F.A. in painting. I met my future
husband in a landscape painting class at school.
Moving to the bay area in 1975, my husband, Lowell, and I moved to
Benicia in 1980. We bought Benicia Frame in 1984 and both currently work as picture
framers.
I have participated in many Arts Benicia shows and have been
involved in Open Studios from its inception. In the past ten years, I have had solo
exhibitions and participated in group shows at San Francisco galleries. I have also
been accepted into many juried exhibitions and have received honors.
My work is represented
by Cecile Moochnek Gallery in Berkeley and Tercera Gallery in Palo Alto.
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