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January  22nd   -  March  19th,  2008

Lois Tarlow's solo exhibition, Lois Tarlow: roughly the last ten years, opened t the Carney.  An artist's reception is being held Sunday, January 27, from 1 to 3 pm.  The exhibition will run through March 19th.

This body of work, spanning a ten year period, draws from multiple sources; nature and time, a love of language, both pictorial and letter based, light and shadow, and the tactile qualities of various ephemeral materials.  Having moved from largely representational images to work that often solely draws from the real world, Tarlow's more recent emphasis has been in the are of abstraction.  This is exemplified in Deep Discovery, in which jellyfish like forms, trailing long tentacles on a very black tactile paper, eloquently refer to a sense of deep dark thoughts and feelings, as well as the deep dark depths of the ocean.

In was in the mid-90's, a time period from which the exhibition draws, that Tarlow notes her new relationship with her materials.  It was with Aftermath, an emotional painting of destruction following a devastating fire in the landscape, that she discovered a more direct connection to her media.

"It was the first time that I had a real interchange with my materials.  It was not a matter of mustering oil paint and brush to depict an image it was a conversation with new, for me, materials that actually suggest new concepts."

Tarlow's work is included in numerous private, corporate, and museum collections.  She has been the recipient of many awards and grants, has taught throughout New England, in Mexico and Vietnam, and has been an active art journalist.

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