DUET: Caroline Carney & Tessera Knowles-Thompson
Four Eleven Gallery, located at 411 Commercial Street in Provincetown, announces Duet: Recent Work by Caroline Carney & Tessera Knowles-Thompson. Of Caroline and Tessera’s work, their gallery colleague Pete Hocking says, “We’ve paired these artists because they approach their practices through deep, reflective observation of the world, especially as human and non-human ecologies intersect in our daily lives. Careful observation allows these artists to craft visual poetry through poignant images and a capacity for showing us feelings that can’t be readily paraphrased.” There will be an opening with the artists on Friday, September 30th from 7-9 PM. The show runs through Thursday, October 13th. In addition to the show, Carney and Knowles-Thompson’s artworks will be available to view and purchase at fourelevengallery.com
Caroline Carney’s work is informed by behind the scenes glimpses, views from walks at odd hours, compositions seen from a bicycle inspire: in restaurants, side streets, early in the morning at a beach or in the dunes. She learned to paint in classes at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania. Growing up in Philadelphia, she spent time after school looking, wandering, and taking photos all over the city or at her parents’ workplaces, an antiques auction house and an architecture firm. These contexts developed her sensibility for composition, understanding of space and objects, and picture making. After visiting Provincetown almost every summer of her life, she moved here in 2020 to broaden her painting practice amidst the exceptional light, architecture, and natural landscape of this area.
Tessera Knowles-Thomson is a collector of tiny beautiful things. It’s rare that she returns from a walk without finding a bone or claw or some other little treasure in her pocket. Raw beauty – found in both the mundane and the extraordinary – drives her to create and continue along an exploratory path. Growing up home-schooled in rural Vermont, she spent much of her time roaming outside with her five siblings. Art was woven into every subject she studied, and drawing was a tool she used to understand the world. Tessera works a variety of mediums, and will adapt her process to the available materials and subject matter. As a process-oriented artist, she observes the patterns, colors, and textures, recalling what initially caught her eye. Her hope is to remind people to look closer, dig deeper and, above all else, to pay attention.
Caroline Carney, Queen Anne’s Lace, 12 x 12 inches, oil on panel