Carol Bruns
American
Carol Bruns graduated with a Fine Art degree from NYU in 1966, then studied painting and drawing at the Art Students League in New York and Academie de La Grande Chaumiere in Paris. She first exhibited in 1975 at OK Harris, curated by Patterson Sims. The most recent exhibitions were in Bushwick in 2015 and Long Island City in 2017. Over the decades, she has continued to show in New York and Atlanta, and received numerous commissions from New York architects and designers.
Leonardo da Vinci revealed that his method of art included becoming absorbed in contemplation of an old wall until an alternative world came into his consciousness. With Bruns, different types of consciousness, such as the mythic (found in play, myth, magic, and creativity), are one dimension of the work while the other is its language of modeling and construction.
The sculpted figures represent a critique of dominant materialist ideologies because they inhabit kinds of consciousness discarded by the modern science view of the person as a machine. The work roots itself in the primitive branch of modernism to embody these old and forgotten ways of perceiving and knowing. One dimension of her visual language is the invention of paper laminate that enables hollow organic shapes with crumpled and pleated surface textures.
Leonardo da Vinci revealed that his method of art included becoming absorbed in contemplation of an old wall until an alternative world came into his consciousness. With Bruns, different types of consciousness, such as the mythic (found in play, myth, magic, and creativity), are one dimension of the work while the other is its language of modeling and construction.
The sculpted figures represent a critique of dominant materialist ideologies because they inhabit kinds of consciousness discarded by the modern science view of the person as a machine. The work roots itself in the primitive branch of modernism to embody these old and forgotten ways of perceiving and knowing. One dimension of her visual language is the invention of paper laminate that enables hollow organic shapes with crumpled and pleated surface textures.
