Untitled, 2006.

My friend, Nicole Charbonnet, has a show up at Arthur Roger Gallery titled "The Truth About God." The title is taken from a poem by Anne Carson whose writings deal with love, life, loss and religion. (The poem's first line: "My religion makes no sense / and does not help me / therefore I pursue it.") Nicole rode out Katrina in her New Orleans home, and only left when the city started to take on water.

From her artist's statement: "Whether painting images or abstract gestures, my paintings are textural and built up with layers over time. The superimposition of textures, images, collage, words and paint create surfaces that retain or reveal a memory of preexisting stages, resulting in a palimpsest in which some images, shapes or words are obfuscated, while others remain visible however shaped by previous or subsequent gestures and events."


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