OHT Gallery Boston

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Supersplat

Carolanna Parlato

May 7 - 29, 2004
Reception: Friday, May 7, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

O·H+T gallery is pleased to present Supersplat, an exhibition of paintings by Carolanna Parlato. Parlato's work may also be seen in Open House; Working in Brooklyn, at the Brooklyn Museum from April 17 - August 15, 2004.

Carolanna Parlato continues to explore the nature of paint as she pushes her luminous works into new territory. Still reminiscent of molten lava, weather maps, and Chinese landscape painting, her new paintings have a playful air; their compositions are more orchestrated and less driven by process. Parlato's method of manipulating paint falls somewhere between random and controlled as she positions individually formed, plastic shapes on poured/painted surfaces. The subtle tension between these "stickers" and the ground on which they float, energizes the work, as do the pop, candy colors. Supersplat ll's cream-colored ground, streaked with pink and blue, is the backdrop for multi-colored, plastic, splat-like forms. Shiny, and highly colored, they seem to occupy a different space than the swirling, milky surface below.

Carolanna Parlato lives and works in Brooklyn. A leading proponent of painterly process abstraction, she has exhibited her work widely in New York and nationally. Recently, her work was shown at the Islip Art Museum and several pieces were purchased for the Pfizer collection. This is Parlato's second solo exhibition at O·H+T gallery.