ACCOUNT. The Material Concerns of an Easton Artist

Basic materials--from zinc to tarpaper to concrete—form the palette that Carol Minarick uses in ACCOUNT, a series of paintings and three-dimensional arrangements, opening January 29th, at Gallery 447, Cambridge, MD 21655. Gallery owner and exhibition curator Greg VandeVisser says of Minarick “her work, from the largest canvases and constructions to the most intimate sketches on paper, unite unexpected objects and substances with our memory of both mythical and historical events.”

Handwriting is often an element in the work of this Eastern Shore artist. In one of the larger pieces in the exhibition Minarick made a well of spring water in the center of a terrace of concrete slabs. She then encircled the water source with hundreds of lines from the Old English poem Beowolf.

In ACCOUNT Minarick visits a number of world conflicts, past and present, using substances like rubber, carbon and steel and objects like ball bearings and other hardware. Here are Katyn, Magadan, Hungary, Diyala and other times and places retrieved for examination. Often horses are called on to act as surrogates for the human condition and also to narrate their own story.

Finally, Minarick comments on the upheaval in art a century ago with her reconstructed version of DuChamp’s iconic The Dark Glass: The Bride Stripped Bare and Her Bachelors, Even, and takes a look at painter Juan Miro’s self-portrait as an assassin.

ACCOUNT will be on view from January 29 through March 19 Gallery hours are 11am to 4 p.m, Thursday through Sunday and by appointment, with an Artist’s Reception Saturday, January 29, from 6 to 8 p.m. Phone: 410-924-0692 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

The gallery advises that certain exhibit subject matter may not be suitable for children.