Artist profile: Carin Mincemoyer
Photo: Ivette Spradlin
Carin Mincemoyer’s work ponders the ways in which humans try to embrace, struggle to control, yearn for, reject, and alter the natural environment. Her creative practice encompasses sculpture, installation, public art and design in diverse materials including wood, metal, discarded packaging, and live plants. Mining the visual evidence of humans' efforts to contend with the seeming chaos of nature, she employs the engineered forms of scaffolding and bridges, the image of the underappreciated dandelion, a weather icon meant as shorthand for the complexity of a thunderstorm. These works offer opportunities for heightened perception of our daily predicament, our constant navigation between civilization and wildness.
Carin's use of wood and fire to represent water in her PUBLIC ACCESS series featured in this exhibit.
“This series comes from the primordial attraction we have to water in the landscape, the meditative calm we can get from gazing at the constantly changing but never repeating ripples and waves of the water's surface. It is based on photos I’ve taken of the water in our region's rivers and lakes, taken from points where the public accesses the water. While each of these public access points is different – different neighborhoods and people, different levels of amenities available, etc. – the always similar but never repeating shapes of the water's surface are a constant and shared experience.”
Carin was recently highlighted in Carnegie Mellon University's School of Art newsletter.
Profile created by ZYNKA Gallery
Allegheny River from Allegheny River Trail: Sept 6, 2020
Charred wood on glass 18 x 26 inches
