Chapin Town Hall Gallery Featured Artist - Ingrid Carson - October through December 2024
Please join us in congratulating Ingrid Carson for being the newest featured artist in the Chapin Town Hall Gallery. Her paintings will be on display October through December 2024. Ingrid is an award-winning artist and one of the founders of Crooked Creek Art League.
Introspection – the Art of Painting from Within
by Ingrid Carson
This exhibition includes only artwork with no predetermined subject. Each piece initiated with pouring of paint onto canvas. I then spread the paint with tools like trowels and scrapers. With each application of paint, I would step back and take a moment to reflect on what I saw. If something appeared, using a brush I would push the paint to enhance the found subject/object. Most often I see images of people in my work.
I consider this to be my most creative work. My mind’s eye determines the direction the work will take. If I see no direction but am attracted to the shapes and colors, I stop and let the viewer have creative thought.
About the Art
Top:
"Vinyl Revisited" - acrylic, 30" x 30", $900
Row 1:
"Line-Crossing" - acrylic, 30" x 30", $900
"Super Nova" - acrylic, 30" x 30", $900
"Carla" - acrylic, 18" x 18", $350
Row 2:
"From East to West" - acrylic, 20" x 20", $400
""Therapy" - acrylic, 12" x 12", $150
"Music of the Mind" -acrylic, 30" x 30", $900
Row 3:
"Speaking Out" - acrylic, 20" x 20", $400
"Waiting" - acrylic, 12" x 16", $250
Artist Bio
Ingrid Carson
Ingrid Carson has been a South Carolina resident since 1978 receiving a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from Columbia College in 1990. She double majored in drawing and photography, but has since been recognized for her realistic oil paintings and abstract water media work. Ingrid continues to attend national workshops focusing on expanding her abilities and knowledge of new media and innovative ideas for creating visual art. Ingrid’s quest for originality of thought and subject matter continues to surprise the viewer. She spends her winters in South Carolina and her summers in her mountain home in Wolf Laurel, North Carolina. Her body of work is a visual diary of her life’s experiences, insights, and inspirations. The places she goes, the people she meets, and her thoughts are foundations for her art. She builds on that foundation with her knowledge of design: line, texture, value, and space. The execution of the artwork is a journey encompassing her feelings relating to the subject and the process of manipulating the medium.
CCAL Gallery Host:
The gallery is located in the Community Room in the Chapin Town Hall at 157 NW Columbia Avenue. It hosts the artwork of one of Crooked Creek Art League's finest artists on a two month rotation.
The Town is a big supporter of the arts in Chapin and we are thrilled to be working with them to showcase more art in town.
Interested in becoming a gallery display artist? For more information or to be selected as an exhibit artist, contact our Public Gallery Coordinator.
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