With the floor to ceiling canvasses of Easton resident Carol Minarick’s new exhibition at the Academy Art Museum providing an intimate, at times moving, journey into the artist’s interests, worries, humor, and love of materials, it is tempting for a viewer to assume this must be an organized series on the part of the artist.
But Minarick, predicting that kind of impulse on the part of her audience, cleverly preempts that by entitling her show, “Beowulf: A Series That Is Not A Series”. While there might be a bit of wordplay in that title, another one of the artist’s many fascinations, it does allow the viewer a certain liberation in viewing her work without seeking themes. Not unlike one’s own consciousness, her images drift from the profound to the superficial, using raw materials, from paper to stone, to highlight the randomness of human thought and expression.
In her interview with the Spy, Carol Minarick talks about her intent, or lack thereof, with the fifty-five panels on display, and selects a few of them to discuss the nature of her work.
This video is approximately five minutes in length
Carol Minarick
Beowulf: A Series That Is Not A Series
April 18 – July 19, 2015
Academy Art Museum, Easton
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