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Biography
Mindy Bray and Carianne Mack met in Iowa City in 2003, where Mindy was beginning and Carianne was ending the MFA program in painting. They each recognized common interests that threaded throughout their work: tracing, silhouettes, order, chaos, reflections, and process.
from Carianne:
"Filices of frost on a windowpane, the Fibonacci sequence on the bottom of a celery stalk, the ripples in a happenstance mound of laundry—my brushstrokes strive to arrive at the sophisticated order of these intricate accidents through coexistence, camouflage, and mimicry. I think of my work as representational rather than abstract, and am ultimately interested in how meaning and metaphor arise through process".
from Mindy:
"My drawings, paintings and installation tap into a mobile privacy that is equipped to travel through the public landscape. I am interested both in how this sense of habitation is built, and in how it can be contradicted and canceled through a geometric unraveling, revealing the undercurrent of spaciousness that is continually available, yet often hidden. The work is about trust – and the placement of trust – be it in the solid container of a built space, or in an underlying spaciousness that disrupts the congruity of a logical construction, and offers freedom".
Mindy and Carianne have collaborated once before, beginning online in 2005, and culminating with an installation at the University of Memphis Museum of Art. This blog will document a continuing investigation of their common aesthetic, and will develop as an online conversation in drawings, in which each respond to the other's drawings, allowing the collaboration to explore exciting new territory.
