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compartments / narratives

"For Carola Penn, urban life yields images that are like mental snapshots . . . rundown storefronts, bridge girders, parking lots, even manholes in the pavement. All unremarkable fragments within the city's kaleidoscopic movement, they form an ongoing, open-ended narrative . . . [Compartments] freezes these fragments in thickly layered, low-key colors and stark images -- visceral responses to emotional as well as architectural divisions, and to the gritty streets and their inhabitants."

— Lois Allan, Artweek, 12/95

This series incorporates myths, dreams and references to the work of other painters.

 

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