CAROLANNA PARLATO

Carolanna Parlato

Carolanna Parlato holds a Masters in Fine Art from the San Francisco Art Institute, and now resides in Brooklyn, New York. She was included in a group exhibition, Open House, at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She has been exhibiting mostly in New York, but also in Atlanta, Boston, and Los Angeles. Most recently, her exhibition at the Phatory Gallery in New York received a review in the May 2006 issue of Art in America. In Carolanna Parlato's organic works, oozing paint flows interact with biomorphic blips and blobs, creating a dynamic fusion of high-keyed color and subtle surface modulations. The sensuous compositions of these paintings morph between hybridized flowers and simulated anatomies. Mirroring the tension between the synthetic plasticity of popular culture and a natural, elemental biology. Parlato recent works establish their own particular beauty, filtering gesture through the saturated colors of cartoons. Parlato’s intensely colored canvases convey a vivid tension between the plasticity of her acrylic medium versus the amorphous organic forms that are created through the process of pouring paint onto the surface. Thick, elastic, and almost toxic looking colors are layered upon each other, creating some forms that are purely accidental and others that are intentionally controlled. Suspended between these polarities, Parlato raises questions about the nature of popular culture that streams between synthetic plasticity and organic naturalism, accidental and intentional occurrences.


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