"When I interviewed Squeak Carnwath in 2006, she told me that painting "can take on any form." Her desire to make "something expansive" within the legacy of painting has interested me because it rejects the notion that the medium inevitably becomes exhausted, incapable of making something, however broken it may be. It is why I went to her latest exhibition, Goddess of All, at Jane Lombard."
"Carwath, whose work was the subject of an in-depth examination, Painting Is No Ordinary Object,organized by Karen Tsujimoto at the Oakland Museum of California in 2009, has long flown under the radar in New York City. Neither the Whitney Museum of American Art nor the Museum of Modern Art has anything in their collection by Carnwath, now in her late 70s."
Squeak Carnwath maintains that painting can take any form and aims to produce expansive work within the oil painting tradition. The exhibition Goddess of All at Jane Lombard presents eleven square paintings ranging from 36 by 36 to 77 by 77 inches. The works are executed in oil and alkyd on canvas mounted on panel. Carnwath's practice draws on the legacy of Renaissance oil painting while remaining independent from Bay Area figurative and Funk movements. Longstanding institutional neglect in New York has left major museums without her work despite a 2009 Oakland Museum exhibition. Fierce independence has limited mainstream recognition.
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