HOMELAND

KARA MARIA's paintings reflect her anxiety about the products and pollution of our synthetic culture as it is spread through the media, the military and other sources of corporate sponsored global homogenization.

Cheerfully apocalyptic, the work is intended to simultaneously attract and repel, blending beauty and toxicity, as in the supersaturated colors of a smoggy sunset.

In creating this particular set of paintings, she documents her hometown - Binghamton, New York - using panoramic photographs. Comparative images from the photos were then juxtaposed in paintings that reveal the character of an area where urban sprawl and decay, ubiquitous flag-waving, religious zeal, open landscapes, garrish prosperity, poetic poverty and many many automobiles compete among the glories of American life.

KARA MARIA HOMELAND exhibition will be up from May 6 until May 26, 2004, with an opening reception on Thursday, May 6, from six until nine PM.

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HOMELAND