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American,
b. 1943
Flowers of Fate
1990-1991
Acrylic, plexiglass, electronic candles, and clocks on wood
196 x 144.25 x 4.5 in. (497.84 x 366.395 x 11.43 cm)
Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation
1996.74
By the end of the 1980s, Los Angeles artist Karen Carson had been for two decades successfully wrangling the formal and structural vocabulary of painting—particularly the construction of spatial illusion through color and geometry—when she suddenly inverted the playing field with a spectacular series of three-dimensional wall pieces that intruded aggressively from the picture plane into the viewer’s space. Her work began featuring strips of wooden molding—the architectural material from which picture frames are constructed—and fragments of mirrored plexiglass that sprouted from the surfaces of traditionally rectangular supports, but then rapidly began to morph into something rich and strange.
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