Carla Aurich
Day into night/Night into day 02 2012
18" x 20" (45.7 x 50.8 cm) oil on panel
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Color is the starting point in my paintings. I’m interested in exploring unique color relationships that are sourced from natural and artificial worlds. The interaction and conversation between the materials and surfaces happen through the combined effort of structure and chance.
My work is rooted in the language of abstraction and pays homage to the early modernist and color field painters. Colors and forms are sourced from the observed world but it is their distillation and relationship that interest me. In this oversaturated and easily discarded image world, my work seeks clarity and invites contemplation.
- Carla
Bio
Carla Aurich received an MFA from the University of Iowa with a focus on painting and printmaking. She has lived and worked in New York City since 1998. Currently she is an adjunct professor of visual arts at Yeshiva University and an adult education instructor at the 92nd street Y, School of the Arts. Her work is exhibited nationally and internationally, She is a recipient of a NYFA 9/11 grant, Pelzer-Lynch fellowship and a Who’s Who among American Teachers and Educators.
EDUCATION
1997 M.F.A., University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1984 B.F.A., University of Montana, Missoula, MT
EXHIBITIONS
2014 Mithraeum 99, site-specific installation at Church of the Intercession, NYC, celebrating 99 years of Bertrand Goodhue’s building on the Audubon Terrace. Curator: Carla Aurich, artists: Peter Ferko, Stacy Greene and Elizabeth Terhune
2013 MTA Poster Project, Art in Subways, juried show Artist's Unite, NYC
2013 Concentric, Curated by Peter Ferko, artist's invitational group show: Anne Russinof, Melissa Staiger, Sarah Shrift, Joel Adas, Helen Selsdon, Kazumi Sakurai, Yuko Araki, at "The Table", Brooklyn, NY
2013 New Work, 350 Bleeker Art Space, NYC, solo show
2012 Abstract/Abstract, Berkshire Bank, NYC, Artist's Unite art in public spaces
2011 Abstractions, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, ILL
2010 Continuing Color Abstraction, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2009 Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Juror Charles Long, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Spectrum Squared, 4 painters on Color and Abstraction, Arts at Bussaco, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Analogous, Juror Lucy Lippard, Runnels Gallery, Eastern New Mexico University
2008 No Chromophobia, Non-Objective Color Paintings, group show, Curated by Richard Witter, OK Harris Gallery, NYC
2008 Small Works Show, Curated by David Humphrey, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Abstract and Geometric, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, ILL
2007 New Work, Courthouse Gallery, Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY
2006 Six Paintings, Metaphor Gallery, Memphis, TN
2006 Drawing the Line between Art and Design, Columbia County Council on the Arts, Hudson, NY
2005 75th Anniversay Exhibition, 92nd St. Y, Milton J. Weill Gallery, Juror, Phil Alexandre, Alexandre Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Funky Abstraction, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, NY
2001 New Works, Paisley Art Space, Solo show, New York, NY
2001 Artists of the 2nd District, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, group show sponsored by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
2001 Faculty Exhibition, Weill Hall Art Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Guild, New Canaan, CT, juried show, received Carol and Ted Shen award.
1998 Abstract Images, group show, Percival Galleries, Des Moines, IA
1998 Berkeley Art Center Assoc. 14Th Annual Exhibition, Juried Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1997 Fellows Invitational, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA
1997 Intimacy, Armstrong Gallery, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, IA
1997 Forbidden Fruit, Eve Drewlowe Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
1996 Members Show, Iowa City Arts Council, Iowa City, IA
1994 Group Show, Metropolis Gallery, Seattle, WA
1993 Anniversary Show, Gallery Artists, AG 47 Gallery, Seattle, WA
1992 Color and Form, King County Arts Commission, Burien, WA
1992 Collages, Several Thoughts Gallery, Seattle, WA
1988 Installations, O.K. Hotel Gallery, Seattle, WA
1988 New Works, Benham Studio Gallery, Seattle, WA
1986 Imagery and Form, Executive Suite Gallery, King County Courthouse, Seattle, WA
AWARDS
2013 MTA Poster Project, Artist’s Unite, subway poster in the 190th street station, NYC
2002 NYFA Grant, 9/11 relief fund, NY foundation for the Arts
1997 Peltzer-Lynch Fellowship, School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa
1996 Madison Scholarship, School of Art and Art History, University of Iowa
PUBLICATIONS
2014 Edge of Day, Andrea Lawson 2014 paintings, catalog essay
2011 Studio Visit Magazine, Volume Fourteen, juried selection of international artists
2009 Analogous, Curator Lucy Lippard, Eastern New Mexico University 2008
2009 Vinartculture Calendar, calendar collaberation with wine writer illustrating the wine year, www.vinartculture.com
2007 Who's Who among American Teachers and Educators, 11th Edition
2001 IT's Visual Speech Magazine, Issue 03, 2001, published by Italy Today
2000 The New York Times, Sunday, May 28, 2000, A Largely Traditional Show at the Silvermine
1998 Iowa City Press-Citizen, 1/8/98, Iowa City artists display at Cornell
1986 The Arts, newsletter of the King County Arts Commission, Sept, 1986, Volume 15, Number 9
COLLECTIONS
Lawrence Rinder, Art Historian, Critic Berkeley Art Center, San Fransisco, CA University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa
Iowa City Arts Council, Iowa City, Iowa
King County Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
Leonard W. Moen Law Offices, Seattle, WA
Dr. Phillip Lindsay, Medical Offices, Seattle,, WA Private Collections
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