My paintings question both what is revealed and what is unknowable in a relationship with another person. I want my paintings to focus on the details of the simultaneous absurdity and fundamental importance of humanity. I believe that our most intimate moments reveal the beautiful imperfection of our humanity. This is the thread that runs through all of my work. My paintings mine the quirks and wonder of our daily intimate gestures. The human figure in my paintings are in direct and humble postures, expressing a universal, open-ended message about vulnerability. My recent exhibition at Canada Gallery in Tribeca and the upcoming exhibitions of paintings of my partner and beloved wife are a labor of love that captures the real closeness, real body and real evidence of our life being lived together. As Katherine Bradford said after doing a studio visit with me, "There’s plenty of bed in these paintings which leaves us to think of sex, but it’s an implied intimacy rather than one that is spelled out. I feel the Lesbian relationship is often left out of our stories or told luridly in a coded language. Here is a straight-forward visual presentation of two mature women who are married and happy.”
My bronze sculptures explore the boundaries of our common desires to connect with each other. Everything I create shares accessible emotion and direct portrayals of human vulnerability. My artistic endeavors acknowledge the connections between human energies within a social framework fraught with subtle irony and unexpected interruptions of the best laid plans. l continue to expand and deepen my commitment to this body of ideas driven to search and capture our one precious life.
Carol Saft
My bronze sculptures explore the boundaries of our common desires to connect with each other. Everything I create shares accessible emotion and direct portrayals of human vulnerability. My artistic endeavors acknowledge the connections between human energies within a social framework fraught with subtle irony and unexpected interruptions of the best laid plans. l continue to expand and deepen my commitment to this body of ideas driven to search and capture our one precious life.
Carol Saft
