howard county – Bonnie Carlson

Painting the Sides

There is something like frosting a cake in painting the sides of stretched canvases.

Bonnie Carlson was born in New York City in 1963. She has lived, worked and traveled throughout America and around the world, especially in Western and Eastern Europe, Eurasia, and South Asia. Her subjects are often drawn from iconic scenes from her travels, filtered through early visual memories of the posters, signs, ads, comics, album covers, and graffiti of 60s and 70s urban America. She paints abstracts, cityscapes, landscapes, and portraits in acrylic on paper and canvas. Bonnie takes the complex and renders it in a spare, graphic style with dark, inked outlines and bold colors drawn from the brightest pallets of her travels. Her work is inspired by Fauvism, Pop Art, Street Art and Art Brut.

Bonnie now calls Washington, D.C. and Damariscotta, Maine home.