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Squeak Carnwath

(1947) Painter

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Squeak Carnwath is a painter.

Quick Facts About Squeak Carnwath

Born: May 24, 1947
Profession: Painter

About Squeak Carnwath

[Wikidata] American artist (born 1947)... | [Wikipedia] Squeak Carnwath is an American contemporary painter and arts educator. She is a professor emerita of art at the University of California, Berkeley. She has a studio in Oakland, California, where she has lived and worked since 1970.

Quotes by Squeak Carnwath

When you're ambitious, it's really hard to be supportive of other people. But it's our job to try, even though one gets…

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Ambitious

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Painting is an investigation of being.

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Investigation

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It is not the job of art to mirror. Images reflected in a mirror appear to us in reverse. An artist's responsibility…

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Art

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Painting, like water, takes any form. Paint is a film of pigment on a plane. It is not real in the way…

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Bounds

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Painting comes to reality through illusion. An illusion that allows us to make a leap of faith; to believe. To believe in…

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Believe

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The visible is how we orient ourselves. It remains our principal source of information about the world. Painting reminds us of what…

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Absent

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I want painting to be my flashlight.

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Flashlights

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Painting is a kind of call and response. During the act of painting one is listening, paying attention to a self, a…

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Attention

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