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"I find in art, there's something magical and melancholy; it allows me to be inventive, searching, daring, always itching, self-expressive creature. At the time of making a painting, I want NOT to know what I am doing. A painting should be made with feeling, not knowing."
"What I invent is made of traces of objects, traces of nature, traces of life. Hence so many scratchings, wounds, and accumulations of strata." |
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About Gordon Caruso Gordon Caruso was an important senior British Columbian painter in the abstract tradition. He and his contemporaries, such as Jack Shadbolt, Gordon Smith and Peter Aspell, set the direction for many B.C. artists who followed. Caruso was also a powerful teacher and communicator who influenced many artists during his substantial teaching career. Abstract expressionism was the development in art that propelled North America into the forefront of the modern art movement. A reaction, in part, to the proceeding world wars, artists such as Kooning, Jackson, Pollack and Gorky strove to find the means to broaden the language of emotion and to reveal the subconscious. Many pieces of Caruso's art can be read as a reaction to his Second World War service in The Special Service Force. Caruso has exhibited in major North American galleries, and his work is in numerous private and corporate collections. He taught at the University of B.C., Simon Fraser University, Vancouver School Of Art and Vancouver's Langara College. His final studio was on Salt Spring Island where he continued to create his mixed media sculptural collages. As Caruso states; "Symbols can be interpreted in different ways by both the visually illiterate and the visually literate. My work has to be measured in the depth of my insight and courage of realizing my own vision. Observers usually are conditioned by their fears and hopes and learning experiences, but if the viewer can escape these demands then perhaps some implications of my work can be felt." |
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