{"id":82945,"date":"2024-06-29T07:28:56","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T14:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=82945"},"modified":"2024-07-05T08:32:25","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T15:32:25","slug":"land-water-and-sky-lindey-carters-art-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/land-water-and-sky-lindey-carters-art-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Land, Water and Sky: Lindey Carter\u2019s Art Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lindey Carter, “A Quick Shower,” watercolor, 10 x 10 in.<\/p><\/div>\n

The water cycle\u2014traditionally how seawater loses its salt as it evaporates from the ocean, falls as rain on the land, and returns to the sea in rivers\u2014is getting a new level of attention under the pressure of climate change. Hydrologists, the experts on this process, are taking the opportunity to bring earlier models up to date. What, they ask, about the portion, a majority here in the West, consumed by agriculture? Such new concepts and questions abound. What about fog runoff? Freshwater lakes? Residential and industrial use? And something called \u201cstreamflow to closed basins?\u201d Hello, Great Salt Lake.<\/h4>\n

One person who closely observes the interaction of land and water is the painter Lindey Carter, presently showing 18 emotionally resonant landscapes at Phillips Gallery. Her vast cloudscapes fill the space over relatively slender perspectives on wetlands, marshes and evidence of human activity. According to her statement, the immediate inspiration is a renewed awareness of what shade contributes to the colors and luminosity of light, and to its often melancholy resonance. Add to that a scientist\u2019s observations on the variety of cloud forms and their relation to the lands they pass over, and the result compiles a view of the sky arguably unseen until now.<\/h4>\n
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Lindey Carter, “Sifting,” watercolor, 40 x 30 in.<\/p><\/div>\n

There are, in effect, two bodies of work here. Due to the scale on the smaller ones, like \u201cA Quick Shower,\u201d paint handling and the presence of the artist\u2019s hand largely take over the role of subject. \u201cA Quick Shower\u201d could be a sketch for \u201cSifting,” in which, as in many of the larger works, done on canvas, the optical and emotional impact of the landscape competes with its hydrological details for prominence. In both, foliage in the water creates shallow ponds in the foreground, but further out in \u201cSifting,\u201d falling rain suggests something like flour being dusted, and, because the cloud\u2019s shadow conceals its fate, it\u2019s not possible to tell if the rain is evaporating before it can replenish the earth, as so often is the case in desert lands.<\/h4>\n

The colors are always saturated, but blue is more striking than gray. In both, she\u2019s done something unusual, which is to handle her watercolors so they have the solid presence of oils, yet the luminosity of watercolors. Fortunately, Phillips\u2019 staff includes Hadley Rampton, one of Utah\u2019s more skillful watercolor landscape painters, who explains that Carter achieves this largely by minimally diluting her watercolors, applying them, then subtracting color, rather than adding it, using cotton swabs and similar tools to as much as carve out the image.<\/h4>\n

It\u2019s ironic, in a way, that just as hydrologists are elaborating their views of water in relation to land, Carter admits to simplifying hers. By focusing on one bird, cloud, or portion of the sky, she creates a microcosm in a small space, or a powerful sense of nature\u2019s impact in a window-like canvas. As she concludes her statement, \u201cBy studying the details of just one aspect of life, I am able to make sense of the chaos that is found in life as a whole.\u201d<\/h4>\n
\"Landscape<\/a>

Lindey Carter, “Cultivated,” watercolor, 10 x 10 in.<\/p><\/div>\n

Lindey Carter<\/em>, Phillips Gallery<\/a>, Salt Lake City, through July 13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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