Space and Illusion Prints by Carrie Marill

Space and Illusion is from the artist's first solo exhibition at Jen Bekman Gallery, entitled Doing a Lot with Very Little. Doing a Lot with Very Little is the result of my endeavor to create a series of non-narrative work. I am using recognizable imagery and the language of systems to create a dialog where the mathematical and the organic cohabitate, creating a world of exploration and curiosity. I chose to paint houseplants after coming across some elegant images in a Japanese architecture book. I've painted them before and found myself returning to plants when I needed a break from the detailed birds I had been working on previously. I like the quiet and contemplative way drawings of ordinary houseplants can say so much through very little. The abstract drawings are observations in color, value and composition, generating three-dimensional images in a two-dimensional space. They act as pauses between the houseplant paintings. It is an organic process; each color choice was in resp