Carmen Neely, the work of fire, 2024. Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim.
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Carmen Neely intertwines brushstrokes with the written word in her work, which she sees as a form of therapeutic release from her chronic health condition. She turned a headline that stuck with her while making the works for this show into an installation on the gallery’s walls: stretching the definition of what it means to look human.
The Chicago-based artist’s first solo in Paris is marked by another theme: the color red. The vibrant hue splashed across the canvases brings an energy and passion that suggest an embrace of life despite its uncertainties.
Excerpted text written by Zach Bernsten for Cultured Magazine.
