Location: 115 Lawrence Hall
A tenured professor at UC Berkeley, contemporary American painter Squeak Carnwath combines personal references and icons from anthropology and art history with purely visual elements to create thought-provoking combinations of text and image. The title of the exhibition is taken from a line in one of Carnwath’s poems, which appears in text on the surface of several of her prints. A selection of her “Crazy Papers” will also be on view. According to Carnwath, in an interview with Richard Whittaker in 1993, “Art doesn’t illustrate a premise or an ideology. It asks questions. It won’t give you any answers really. It’s more ambiguous.” This project and Carnwath's lecture are made possible by a JSMA Academic Support Grant.
