Everyday Is Not The Same: Squeak Carnwath’s Prints and Papers

Contemporary American painter Squeak Carnwath is currently a tenured professor at the University of California at Berkeley. In her work, she combines personal references and icons from anthropology and art history with purely visual elements, and creates thought-provoking combinations of text and image. Regardless of media, everything relates back to the act of painting. 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 on Thursday, February 11 (co-sponsored by the Dept. of Art 2015-16 Lecture Series) are funded by an Academic Support Grant submitted by Laura Vandenburgh, Associate Professor, Painting & Drawing/Painting & Drawing Coordinator.