'Man in Motion' by Carrie Lederer

Description

Signed lower right and painted circa 1985.
Provenance label verso from Ianetti Lanzone Gallery.

Winner of the prestigious Fleishacker Eureka … more Signed lower right and painted circa 1985.
Provenance label verso from Ianetti Lanzone Gallery.

Winner of the prestigious Fleishacker Eureka Fellowship, Carrie Lederer received her BFA in sculpture from Michigan State University and has exhibited both nationally and internationally with success including at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum, the Calvin Morris Gallery (NY) and the Franz Mehring Gallery, Berlin. The recipient of numerous medals, prizes and juried awards, Ms. Lederer continues to live and paint in Oakland, California.

From artist's website:
For over twenty years I have been making work that primarily relates to one subject—life forms in nature and our relationship to the natural world. My paintings and sculpture depict turbulent gardens informed by nature’s riotous colorful beauty, or the deep dark space of our universe filled with a Byzantine intricacy of stars, snowflakes, and snowmen.

The work conveys the order beneath the confusion found in these two worlds—the garden and universe—both of which are astounding, capricious and seemingly anarchic.

The science of fractals and patterns of chaos are particularly important to my work. A fractal is a complex geometric figure made up of patterns that repeat itself—each time on a smaller scale, and each smaller version is referred to as a “self-similar ” form.

At first glance they seem to be a tangle of order/disorder or violence/beauty. I’m drawn to nature’s intrinsic capacity to create and reproduce pattern—as both a source of imagery and working process for my own art.

Fractals basically tell the story of the wild transformations in nature that take place on a daily basis, and they give order to a chaotic world of energy and change. My paintings, sculpture and installations are a response to these natural wonderments.

Size including frame: 25.25 H x 19.25"W x 1.25D less