"Existential Girlfriend" Contemporary Abstract Acrylic Painting by Carolyn Reed Barritt

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Existential Girlfriend
Acrylic and ink on canvas
30 x 24 inches
2021

This artwork was part of my solo exhibition, … more Existential Girlfriend
Acrylic and ink on canvas
30 x 24 inches
2021

This artwork was part of my solo exhibition, Puppet Show, which took place at Boxheart Gallery in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania in May 2021. It was created with acrylic paint and ink on canvas. It is on a gallery wrapped, back-stapled, stretched canvas (with .5 inch profile), and has a hanging wire.

The following is from the exhibition statement: Carolyn Reed Barritt’s artworks are a combination of raw, fluid expression and deliberate, controlled mark-making. Her drawings and paintings exist between the diametrical realms of abandon and restraint and are borne of a balance between doing, then contemplating, then doing again: immediacy supported by intention. The off-balance imagery she explores springs from her interest in topics that teeter between science and fiction, such as artificial intelligence, automation, and space. Barritt’s practice includes large and small scale paintings and drawings on canvas and paper. She creates her artwork with acrylic ink, acrylic paint, graphite, charcoal, oil pastels, oil stick, and wax crayons. less