Carmela Kolman

Carmela Kolman received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1982 and an MFA from Yale University School of Art in 1984. She has exhibited widely in New York City including solo exhibitions at Denise Bibro Fine Art and Prince Street Gallery, and group shows at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, Kouros Gallery, and Neptune Fine Art.

As a member of Zeuxis, An Association of Still Life Painters, Kolman has participated in four traveling exhibitions as well as numerous group shows in New York City and throughout the United States. Currently her work can be seen with the Zeuxis group at the Ohr-O‘Keefe Museum of Art through September 2005. Among the universities and colleges that have exhibited her work are Colby College, University of New Hampshire, Haverford College, Boston University, Purdue University, University of Wisconsin at La Crosse, College of William and Mary and The Washington Studio School. Kolman’s work has been reviewed and/or featured in the New York Times, Modern Painters, Art New England, The New York Daily News, The Columbus Dispatch, and Better Homes and Gardens.

“As a former figure painter, I have turned my attention to fruit because they are living, voluminous objects that, like the human form, decay over time. Their shape is similar to the human silhouette, and their shadows create dramatic compositional effects. By revealing only traces of the fruits’ existence, the shadows also represent absence or decay, and are as prominent to the work as the fruits themselves. The sense of absence created by the shadows adds a darker dimension to the sweetness of the fruit compositions.”

—Carmela Kolman