Between You and Me
June 2007
Between You and Me, 2007, oil on canvas, 72 x 98 inches
In Auge’Äôs paintings the arbitrary and precise co-mingle, resounding in confusion and clarity. Processes of working collide, as do the entities image and painting. Veiled and coded content emerges through a destructive form of realism, the vocabulary of images holding resonant a background in the American Deep South. Image choice, however, is only a mode of proceeding; the means for daily exploration in painting and drawing. Memories of a past are depicted, though with the sense of a contradictory, yet mutually resonant present. The works actually suggest a nostalgia for contemporary reality; for that which still exists.
Carl Auge is an MFA graduate of CCA’Äôs school of painting, and studied under notable painters Christopher Brown, Mary Snowden and David Huffman. He has recently held solo exhibitions at Santa Clara University, Hotel Biron Gallery, Tartine Bakery, and Shift Gallery, and has been involved in group shows such as Mimi Barr’Äôs ’ÄúPaper Awesome’Äù, Juice Design’Äôs ’ÄúKeepsake’Äù and ’ÄúCream, From the Top’Äù at Arts Benicia . In 2006 he was the recipient of the prestigious Krasner-Pollock Award and the Creative Work Fund Award.
artist's website: carlauge.neoimages.net