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September Issue 2007
Tryon Fine Arts Center in Tryon, NC, Offers Works by Carol Icard
The Tryon Painters & Sculptors will present the exhibit, A Celestial Turning, featuring oil paintings by Carol Icard in Gallery I at the Tryon Fine Arts Center in Tryon, NC. The exhibit will be on view from Sept. 8 through Oct. 1, 2007.
A native of Massachusetts, Icard has lived
in Landrum, SC, for the last several years. Her education includes
three years at Northeastern University's School of Nursing in
the 1960's, followed by marriage, family and a career in professional
crafts. For many years Icard designed and marketed hand painted
and silk screened children's gifts and also designed and constructed
mixed media baskets. During this time Icard studied with numerous
nationally known art professionals and in the 1990's returned
to formal education at Berkshire Community College.
Icard was awarded high honors with her Associate of Visual Art
Degree in 1996 and then traveled to Tuscany to study Book and
Paper Arts with Paola Princivalli Conti. Her travel to Italy transformed
her life.
Icard has returned to Italy many times since then including a stay at the International School of Art in Montecastello di Vibio where she was accepted as a Resident Artist in the Fall of 2001. The artist considers Italy to be her Muse, as she paints in a range from impressionistic renderings of actual places, to introspective compositions that subjectively address her love of the colors and textures of Italy. In an ongoing series Icaed uses words and books on the surface of the canvas for their compositional elements and as allusions to discovery.
Icard's describes her current exhibit, A Celestial Turning - the progression of memory is best described by the artist herself: "Just as the moon waxes and wanes, the manner of my work cycles from painting recognizable objects and places to the abstract more minimal distillation of my remembered experiences. I am an emotional, introspective painter, often beginning with thoughts or photographs that carry me from journal to canvas. Words included in my works contribute both content and composition. I often convert form to line, inferring impermanence or change. My colors are often warm earth tones, grounding my most ethereal thoughts and tethering my appreciation for the ephemeral to the present moment."
With solo and group shows since 1989, which include places from California to Massachusetts, Tennessee and the Carolinas, Icard's works are in numerous private and corporate collections. Currently she is represented by City Art in Columbia, SC, Carolina Gallery in Spartanburg, SC, Silver Fox Gallery in Hendersonville, NC, and also by Tokonoma Gallery in West Stockbridge, MA.
Some of Icard's awards include Spartanburg County Museum of Art and the Juried Western North Carolina Biennial Exhibit, INTERPRINT Art Competition. Although some viewers say that Icard's work reminds them of Mark Rothko, Georgia O'Keefe and Helen Frankenthaler, her message, and her journey "communicate the essence of everything I contemplate and find significant."
For further information check our NC Institutional
Gallery listings, call the center at 828/859-8322 or visit (www.tryonarts.org).
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