The Cornell Art Museum presents another engaging Art Talk! This
month the Museum welcomes Carin Wagner (painter) and Karla Walter (sculptor),
who currently have works on display in the WILD exhibit, which runs through April
17th.
The Art
Talk is Thursday, March 31st at 6 p.m. Admission is $15 and includes wine, tea,
light bites and a chance to see the WILD exhibit
Carin
Wagner is an award-winning South Florida artist, born in Norfolk, Virginia.
As the daughter of a Navy man, she lived in multiple states, including
California and New Jersey. Wagner works predominately in oil on canvas,
with a message of environmental protection at its core. She has exhibited
throughout the U.S., including shows at the Sherry French Gallery, the Silvia
Wald, Po Kim Gallery in New York, the Lawrence Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona,
the Cultural Council of Palm Beach, and the Lighthouse Center for the Arts.
Her work has been included in multiple museum shows, including the Ft.
Lauderdale Museum of Art, the Coral Springs Museum of Art, and the Boca Raton
Museum of Art. Her awards include the Peoples’ Choice from the Cultural
Council of Palm Beach County (two consecutive times), Peoples’ Choice from Lighthouse
Art Center, first place in Continuum Palm Beach, Mahlon Cline Award of
Excellence, Dorothy L. Irish Memorial Award, and two time winner of the
DiVincenzo Award for Life Drawing. Her work has been featured in a
chapter of the book Grand Ambition, by G. Bruce Knecht, and written about extensively in
publications such as: Sun Sentinel,
Palm Beach Post, Gallery and Studio, International Art Journal, Architectural
Digest, Florida Design Magazine, On View Magazine, Showboats International, and others. She is currently represented by The
Lawrence Gallery AZ, and the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County.
Karla
Walter – Artist Statement: As an artist, it is important to
recognize a message and seize that moment. Crows are messengers, omens
for change. Several personal encounters with crows have compelled me to express
my personal creativity through this messenger. This body of work explores the
similarities between the social interactions among crows and that of humans. To
know the crow is to know ourselves. This is the journey I have taken with this
body of work. The common crow maintains a unique place in our ecosystem
thanks to their intelligence and strong family values. They are social,
opportunistic, vocal, visual, shrewd, and reliant on memory and individual
recognition. Crows are tricksters and the wise guys of the bird world. We all
know someone who has these traits. I believe that this is why we relate to them
and maybe see ourselves in this intelligent black bird. My personal connection
with crows has moved me to interact, grow and change.
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