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Ladies On A Roll

Adding Machine Paper Roll
100 x 3 x 3 in
(254.0 x 7.62 x 7.62 cm)
$1,000
Carolyn Kramer

“Ladies on a Roll" is a whimsical paperwork expression of vertical linear graphite art. The outlines of ancient vessel shapes are drawn vertically and continuously, one after the other, on a roll of adding machine paper.

Revealed is the similarity of ancient vessel outlines to that of the outline of women’s bodies.

The unusual medium of adding machine paper was chosen to create an interactive piece. The viewer is invited to slowly unroll the piece to reveal the relationship between the infinite variety of vessels and women.

This series speaks to antiquity, archeology and the modern woman. These are metaphors for the female body. My work explores ancient vessels and their myths, juxtaposed to present day female imagery. Urn shapes are referenced from pottery of Minoan and Mycenaean Greek civilizations. I revisit early pottery images and convert these forms into modern day statements.

Subject Matter: Conceptual - FIgurative
Collections: Women As Vessels

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As an established contemporary artist, Carolyn Kramer wishes to restore human spirit by extending to viewers a sense of peace, spaciousness and lively energy expressed in her textured, nuanced canvases, gestural drawings and vivid manuscripts.

Carolyn was born in Johnstown, PA, USA, graduated from Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, CA, Fine Art, Post Grad & Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, B.Sc. Art Education. She has extensive exhibiting and art teaching experiences in both Canada and the US.

Raised in the Pennsylvania countryside, Carolyn has closely observed earth’s formations, a thematic influence in her work. Inspired by living close to Vancouver’s sea walls & Los Angeles’s lakes & mountains, her fine art has been described as soulful and ethereal .

Carolyn’s art is rich with painterly textures, layers of color on color and whimsical washes. Multi-layered paintings, drawings and mono-prints are created using various mediums of interwoven chalk pastels to chunks of vibrant acrylic paints, oil encaustics and delicate, dribbles of gold leaf. Throughout all her art work is a love of color and soulful expression.

Artwork Archive website represents available art from Carolyn Kramer’s three previously curated and successful, exhibited art series and collections, "DynamicDivas", “Feminine Visions” and “Nature Close-Up.”

She is the recipient of recent awards including the Westlake Village Artist’s Guild, Juried Group Show, 2nd Prize, Mix. Media, Westlake, CA, 2019 & the American Heritage Committee, NSDAR, Women in the Arts Recognition Award, 2015. Permanent collections include PDG Dental, EastLake Dental, SD, & Mattel Collection, LA.

Carolyn’s fine art has been described as inspiring & spiritual with a common thread of whimsy and rich textures.wo

Carolyn Kramer

Westlake Village, CA

Ladies On A Roll

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