White Picket Fences
Carolyn Martin

October 7 – November 1, 2003

In her latest exhibition Carolyn Martin has turned from the large format, abstract drawings she is known for and entered the realm of the politically engaged. In a series of installations her new work examines the idea of the fence. Martin focuses upon that specifically American invention, the white picket fence, symbolic of frontier claim-staking and the happy home. But the pointed spikes and repeated bars of the picket fence can have more sinister implications. It is a double-edged symbol. In her tableaux, Martin combines white picket fences with iconic figures. In her collages, the white picket fence is combined with her gestural line drawings.

View the Press Release here.