FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SIMON CARR
“Street, Subway, Landscape”
Salena Gallery
Brooklyn Campus, Long Island University
March 5-30, 2007
The Salena Gallery of the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University is proud to present move than fifty new paintings and etchings by New York artist Simon Carr. The subjects of Carr’s new work include landscapes, still-lives, portraits, cityscapes, and subway scenes. Carr’s large, richly-colored canvases capture the energy and edginess of the city in expressive brushstrokes and rough textures. By contrast, his small etchings are delicate, understated studies of many of the same subjects.
Critic Steven Harvey notes that few artists have chosen to portray the subway, even though it is a powerful part of daily urban experience. Carr, in his words, “plunges us into a dour yet vital human river that weaves through gray-green corridors and tunnels…in the escalators and tunnels of the subway he has found a quotidian subject that we can identify with and that carries us along.”
Simon Carr is a well-known painter who has exhibited his work in venues ranging from the Bowery Gallery to Union Theological Seminary, from university galleries at Princeton and Haverford to the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine. He has received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Gottlieb Foundation Grant, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He earned a BFA in painting at Goddard College and an MFA in painting at Parsons School of Design. He is presently an Assistant Professor of Art and Borough of Manhattan Community College.
For further information, please call 718-488-1198 or contact Nancy Grove, Gallery Director, at nancy.grove@liu.edu