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Carolyn Meyer
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Carolyn Meyer is inspired by her daily navigation through Bay Area traffic during her commute to work each morning. Like many people, she rises at 5:30 Monday through Friday to leave on time for an hour-long drive. As her car crawls along Highway 101, she watches day break against the approaching San Francisco skyline. The freshness of a new day in combination with the bustling energy of the city inspires her work.
In the studio, Carolyn uses photographs that she has impulsively shot from her car window and works to recreate the scenery of her daily commute. She places the photographs on the opposite side of the room for vague reference about compositional details such as the position of light posts along a bridge. She is not concerned with realism, but rather with conveying the emotional rush she experiences watching morning light rise over the modern expanse of the Bay Area. Her toothsome paint application reveals her commitment to the combination of traditional techniques with modern subject matter, painting freeways and road signs in the thick impasto of the old masters.
Carolyn Meyer is a professor at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco where she earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees in Fine Arts.
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