Kathline Carr + Frantz Lexy

May 4-29 2022

SoWa First Friday Art Walk: May 6 | 5–8PM
Sneak Peak: Sunday, May 1 | 12–4PM (visit the gallery during the installation process and get a sneak peak of the new work from Kathline Carr and Frantz Lexy!)

“Land/Form” features the work of Kathline Carr and Frantz Lexy. The artists share a deep interest in the landscape. In this exhibition they create in their respective work a language of form, resulting in imaginary or reconstructed places that blur the lines between representation and abstraction. Carr is primarily dealing with abstraction in her paintings, relying on tonality and a strong interest in drawing to refine her impressions. Lexy uses scale and dimensionality to explore the forces of nature as well as human attempts to control them.

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Kathline Carr

Carr’s paintings and prints are process-driven, inspired by the landscape, a search for the essence of landforms through process-based abstraction. I work primarily within the mediums of oil and gouache painting, drawing, printmaking and fiber art. Her emotional connection to being in nature, particularly mountainous or forested terrain, influences her material exploration, and the places that resonate with her are often documented through field notes, drawings and photography, to be referenced in her studio practice. She strives to create forms or space in the picture plane that represent her experiences, using notations of physical nature, repetition and multiples.

 Carr earned a BFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College, VT, with concentrations in Visual Arts and Feminist Philosophy, and holds an MFA in Visual Arts from The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. An author as well as visual artist, Carr’s recent book Miraculum Monstrum (Red Hen Press) won the Clarissa Dalloway Book Prize from the AROHO Foundation. In addition to AROHO, her work has been supported by grants from Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation and Assets for Artists. Carr has exhibited her art in New York City, Boston, New England and Canada. She lives and works in the Berkshires and is a Core Member of Fountain Street.

Frantz Lexy

In this series of landscape paintings, Frantz Lexy explores man’s attempt to assert control on the planet versus the mysterious will of geological forces. From small ripples of oceanic waves, to the movement of fleeting clouds , the cracks on the surface of a mountain rock, or the shape of massive landforms seen at a distance, his work emphasize the scale of the Earth and our role in shaping it. The use of marble based acrylic medium and resin to compose these pieces, brings three dimensionality into the work and remind us of the effects of tactile interaction with nature on the human spirit. Though the images are born out of imagination, they carefully reference the abstract patterns found throughout nature, resulting in scenes that move freely between abstraction and photorealism.

Lexy is a self-taught artist and experimentation is a driving force behind his vibrant acrylic paintings. His work has been shown in galleries across Massachusetts. He is a member of Cambridge Art Association and Fort Point Arts Community. He lives in Boston and is a Core Member of Fountain Street.