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Join Us at Carol's Open Studio Event
Saturday, March 13th
Noon to 5pm
350 Sunset Avenue, Studio 2
Venice, CA 90291
310.392.9294
this extraordinary painting will be on display
Opportunity Drawing Rules:
•Tickets are $20 each. Buy 5 tickets and we’ll give you one for free!
•The more tickets you buy, the more chances you have to own this highly collectible work that will provide many lifetimes of beauty, discoveries and enjoyment for yourself and your loved ones.
•The drawing will take place at 5pm on March 13, 2010 at the artist’s open studio event in Venice, CA. You need not be present to win.
•Tickets may be purchased through Free Arts until Noon March 13th or at the Open Studio event until 4:45pm on March 13.
•The artist will deliver and install the painting for the winner in the Southern California area (within 50 miles of Venice, CA).
•If the winner is more than 50 miles outside of Venice, CA, the winner is responsible for all arrangements and costs associated with shipping the painting.
•Arrangements to receive the painting, either via delivery or shipment, must be made with the artist by March 24, 2010.
Carol Surface’s work uses the urban iconography of billboards and sidewalks as metaphors for the human condition. Richly-hued organic shapes that dance with structure, depth and layers are the hallmarks of her work and Ravaged Ways No. 26 (Available) displays those qualities beautifully. This painting is the artist’s signature piece: it is the first work in which she incorporated one of her original poems and the only painting she has ever made on what she affectionately refers to as “the box.”
“The most significant works of my career have come to me in a beautiful blast of vision. In this case the picture in my mind’s eye was of an architectural painting that spoke of a billboard in transition, its colorful old layers peeking through its new ones. I was navigating new waters here… pouring acrylic on the canvas, scraping away layers, painting my poem’s text and placing translucent emulsion transfers in just the right locations. From the time I had the vision and ordered the custom-made canvas-covered box to the moment I put the last portrait on it was three years,” Surface said. “The process of lifting the emulsion from the large Polaroid made from my slide nearly did me in…the material is so fragile it can disappear right through your fingers,” she recalled. “The tension was so great that I had to call my husband to come to the studio and massage my shoulders so I could affix the last of the images!”
