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| Painter Robert Cartmell,
who is also a renowned roller coaster enthusiast, works in a tradition that could
be loosely connected to Philip Guston and other members of the so-called second
generation New York School, who preferred a more lyrical variation on the blood-and-guts
formula of abstract expressionism. Although he is a generation younger than these
artists, and prefers figurative over abstract references in his thickly impastoed
canvases, Cartmell’s distinctive touch comes through particularly in his drawings,
which are often more explicit in their references to daily life. Many of Cartmell’s
paintings actually depict the roller coasters that he has made one of the focal
points of life, although he often deploys them as a metaphor for the risks and
excitement that face all of us in the process of day-to-day living. (excerpt from Dan Cameron's catalog essay, click to see full text) |
