Occupy Portland - Carola Penn
Carola Penn was a leading Pacific Northwest artist whose paintings were rooted in landscapes both political and personal. Educated in the 1960s at the University of California at Berkeley, Penn studied under the leading mid century California artist Elmer Bischoff, and was influenced by German Expressionism, Paul Klee and Van Gogh.
In the course of her career, she created a series of paintings with subjects ranging from the Lair Hill neighborhood to inner-city Portland; from patches of grasses and weeds to Washington State’s Yale Valley forest; from politics to the inner space of childhood. Painting on panels of wood, she experimented with cutting and rearranging the pieces. The resulting juxtapositions were occasionally jarring, often unexpected and always provocative.
Carola Penn painted with acrylic on wood or canvas emphasizing paint textures, adding material such as sand or sawdust to give the works a tangible presence. Her portrayal of different - sometimes conflicting - aspects of our city (the natural beauty of the northwest, the people, transportation and Portland’s downtown development) were all subjects of her work.
Carola Penn was a leading Pacific Northwest artist whose paintings were rooted in landscapes both political and personal. Educated in the 1960s at the University of California at Berkeley, Penn studied under the leading mid century California artist Elmer Bischoff, and was influenced by German Expressionism, Paul Klee and Van Gogh.
In the course of her career, she created a series of paintings with subjects ranging from the Lair Hill neighborhood to inner-city Portland; from patches of grasses and weeds to Washington State’s Yale Valley forest; from politics to the inner space of childhood. Painting on panels of wood, she experimented with cutting and rearranging the pieces. The resulting juxtapositions were occasionally jarring, often unexpected and always provocative.
Carola Penn painted with acrylic on wood or canvas emphasizing paint textures, adding material such as sand or sawdust to give the works a tangible presence. Her portrayal of different - sometimes conflicting - aspects of our city (the natural beauty of the northwest, the people, transportation and Portland’s downtown development) were all subjects of her work.
Carola Penn was a leading Pacific Northwest artist whose paintings were rooted in landscapes both political and personal. Educated in the 1960s at the University of California at Berkeley, Penn studied under the leading mid century California artist Elmer Bischoff, and was influenced by German Expressionism, Paul Klee and Van Gogh.
In the course of her career, she created a series of paintings with subjects ranging from the Lair Hill neighborhood to inner-city Portland; from patches of grasses and weeds to Washington State’s Yale Valley forest; from politics to the inner space of childhood. Painting on panels of wood, she experimented with cutting and rearranging the pieces. The resulting juxtapositions were occasionally jarring, often unexpected and always provocative.
Carola Penn painted with acrylic on wood or canvas emphasizing paint textures, adding material such as sand or sawdust to give the works a tangible presence. Her portrayal of different - sometimes conflicting - aspects of our city (the natural beauty of the northwest, the people, transportation and Portland’s downtown development) were all subjects of her work.
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