"Kinkade Meets Turner Paints Sci-fi With Fanbrush"

  Carla Knopp presents

current landscapes from her studio 

November 2 - 24, 2012

Dewclaw founder Carla Knopp presents current landscape paintings from her studio. She revisits her earlier working methods, using a wet-into-wet application to intuitively conjure new imagery. Many of these paintings use a high-keyed palette and imagery that steer them toward the realm of kitsch. These choices also give the paintings a new aesthetic look, creating new paths of reference. The results range a bit, from the raucously saccharine and playful, to poetic, wistful, and ominous.

These paintings start from similar intentions and methods, and then become independent explorations. 

 IMAGES from show

Craft Plaques - Teasers

Carla Knopp will use Dewclaw as a studio for July & August, and will open on First Fridays 6 - 9 pm, Saturdays, 12 -4 pm, and by appointment.

*Update: 8-2-12   The craft studio lasted through opening night and half-way through Saturday. Then I did a total take-down amidst a near melt-down. I'd been struggling and waffling about this work, and finally made the decision to excise it from my oeuvre. It could come back, but I feel good about recommitting to my core aesthetic directions, which involve exploration in the magical two-dimensional realm. This field and path of thought is meandering enough to yield infinite discoveries. This 3-d direction is simply too distracting, and felt like it stymied more deeply engaged discoveries. 

Mounts at Dewclaw

Mount U, 10" x 10", oil on wood, 2008-10

As we enter a new year and hunker down for winter, a bit of reflection seems in order. I'll be showing paintings from my Mounts series, which were originally shown at Four Star Gallery, Indianapolis. Works from this series were featured in the 83rd New American Paintings, and they have been exhibited individually in several places. I look forward to showing these again as a group, in the intimate atmosphere of Dewclaw. 

Mounts at Dewclaw

January 14 - February 25, 2012

Opening Reception: Friday, Feb. 3, 6-9 pm

Open Saturdays 12-4 pm and by appointment

Open February First Friday 6-9 pm

Please call for an appointment.

Carla 317-375-0876

Nuvo Review of Dewclaw

Here's a review of the show by Nuvo's Dan Grossman. Dan summarized the Dewclaw metaphor, and its relation to these works in particular, very well. I like that he proposed theories about the imagery, without trying to solve their mystery.