Choke The River With Stone Fingers

Friday, April 4th - Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Guest Artist Carl Baratta

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Barrata’s narrative systems never settle. If things do not become fixed, they cannot be dismissed or forgotten. Every element is highly charged, active, and alive including dramatic spatial shifts, the violent color pallet, the mismatched characters and the exotic landscape.

Unlike typical narrative paintings, these paintings allow the viewer to browse each painting in any order they want; it is left to them to decide how the different elements connect to make some sort of sense. When each piece is looked in its entirety, it adds up to a simple conclusion: something is wrong and the clues that are given won’t yield a solution; they only show some how far-reaching the wrongness is. As the scene unfolds, this unnerving feeling ensures that each element and its constituent parts add up to a sense of mystery and wonder, keeping the viewer engaged.