Farm Projects
Susan Carr: Little Happiness
Nancy Berlin: Considering Change
On exhibit: May 2 - 18
Artist Talk: May 16, 5:00 PM
SUSAN CARR:
Little Happiness brings together a body of sculptural work rooted in Carr's lifelong devotion to paint and color. Carr approaches sculpture with the eye and instincts of a painter, treating color not as surface decoration but as structure. Working from her studio on Cape Cod, Carr conceives of each sculpture as a component of a three-dimensional painting: individual pieces that function independently and together, inviting the viewer to move around them and experience color and form from every angle. The works are at once deeply personal and openly accessible, transforming private feeling into something immediate and shared.
About the Artist Susan Carr holds an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston at Tufts University, with a semester at Radcliffe. Her work has been presented at the Outsider Art Fair in New York City, The Painting Center in New York, Pocket Utopia, Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, L21 Gallery in Palma, Spain, and LABspace in Hudson, New York, where she has had six solo exhibitions, among many other venues.
NANCY BERLIN
The exhibition brings together primarily new works from two of Berlin's ongoing series: Flight Patterns and Constant Revisions. In Flight Patterns, Berlin begins with pages from vintage bird guides adhered to panel or paper, then builds upon them with taped lines, acrylic paint, and ink to trace the shifting migration paths of bird species in the face of climate change. In Constant Revisions, she works atop found materials — old atlas pages, outdated encyclopedias, vintage travel books — layering marks derived from proofreaders' symbols and manuscript editing to create a visual chronicle of how knowledge, interpretation, and so-called fact are perpetually subject to revision.
Across both bodies of work, Berlin's process is inseparable from her subject. She builds up surfaces through accumulated layers of painted prints, drawings, and digital photographs, then tears, rips, tapes, and strips them back. Paint and ink are applied and rubbed away; sections are preserved and others are surrendered. The result is work that embodies, rather than merely depicts, the indiscriminate and relentless nature of change, environmental, political, and personal.
About the Artist Nancy Berlin was born in New York City and, after graduating from Barnard College, received her MA in painting and printmaking from Hunter College. She has received grants for her drawings from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Berkshire Taconic Foundation.
She has had residencies at the American Academy in Rome, at Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington, and at the New Pacific Studio in Mt. Bruce, New Zealand. Her work is in the collections of the Cape Cod Museum of Art, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, the Boston Public Library and many corporate and private collections. She has exhibited her drawings, prints and paintings in one-person and group shows at galleries she has been affiliated with in New York City, Boston, Seattle and Charleston, West Virginia. She currently lives and works most of the year in Truro, Massachusetts. Her work has long been concerned with mapping change.