EPHEMERATA
This series was included in an exhibit at Subterranean Gallery on Bancroft Way in Berkeley, CA, 2017. All paintings in this series are 12″ x 12″, acrylic on canvas, unframed. To view a painting in a larger format or to view as slide show, click on individual images below.
MOSAICO
This series started out as abstract painted backgrounds with the figures dropped in to create a floating and overlapping effect. These paintings were exhibited at both Subterranean Gallery on Bancroft in Berkeley, CA, 2017 and Goat Hill Pizza, San Francisco, CA, 2017. All paintings in this series are 24″ x 24″, acrylic on canvas, unframed. To view a painting in a larger format or to view as slide show, click on individual image below.
URBAN STORIES (the paintings)
This small series of 12″ x 12″ acrylic on canvas paintings accompanies a series of narrative color drawings of the same name that was exhibited at Subterranean Gallery on Bancroft Way in Berkeley, CA. (See Color Drawings page to view that segment of the series). To view a painting in a larger format or to view as slide show, click on individual image below. Here is the curator introduction to the exhibition:
“Likely or unlikely stories. We are all writing the narrative of our lives. One step at a time. One-way streets, back alleys, sprawling boulevards, rocky trails take us to and through our destinies. Do we turn left? Do we turn right? Each intersection decides our next paragraph, beginning or ending of a chapter. Sometimes, detours are necessary. Choices are made that sketch us into the world; we add color, texture, layers and become someone. We become other than we had planned or imagined ourselves to be. Change course, reinvent. Engage in unexpected acts. Commune with an often times unanticipated cast of characters in the theater of life.
In the urban environment, one collects myriad sensory input, bumping into or intentionally interfacing with the intermittent and contrary forces of nature: hot and cold, creative and destructive, delightful and disturbing, substantive and hollow, resilience and frailty. Balancing the Shiva/Shakti principle, we navigate the dichotomy of the human experience. We carry on.
Who are we. What stories do we have to tell. Or not tell. Cry out, stay silent. Sing your truth. Clarity, shadow, honesty, pretense. Likely or unlikely, we create our urban stories. And hopefully, like the lotus, we all float lightly in beauty amidst the muddy waters, come what may.”
SACRED OBJECTS
Just a few of the remaining paintings of this series from 1992, Acrylic on Canvas 30″x30″. To view a painting in a larger format or to view as slide show, click on individual image below.
PAUL CARRARA EXHIBITS, 1 & 2
This is a collection of paintings from two exhibits at Carrara’s in Emeryville, CA, 1988 and 1994. Works shown here are acrylic on canvas or acrylic on paper, various sizes ranging from 20″ x 20″ to 6 feet x 10 feet. To view a painting in a larger format or to view as slide show, click on individual image below.
MISCELLANEOUS PAINTINGS FROM THE PAST
These are a miscellaneous collection of little paintings I have done over the years just playing around in the studio or singles that were not part of a series. All are acrylics on paper or canvas, various sizes. To view a painting in a larger format or to view as slide show, click on individual image below.
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