“Each work of art is its own journey” - an interview with Carolyn Oberst posted on Art Summit, a cooperative enterprise that opens eyes and hearts.

My painting, “Burning the Tree of Life” is included in an in-person group exhibition at the Limner Gallery located at 123 Warren Street, Hudson, NY.

This interview with the curator, Hannah Traore, was recorded in conjunction with my solo show on Oarbt.com. We discussed work from my Back Story series that she selected for the show.

First glances can be deceiving and magically, the more you look at these complex paintings, the more you see. Carolyn Oberst invites you directly into her dreams through the Back Story Series, an exhibition of eleven oil paintings, that create intricate visual poetry which is suggestive yet obliges the viewer to fill in the blanks.

I was invited by the curator, Hannah Traore, to have a solo show with Oarbt.com, when they were launching their platform combining technology with the viewing, displaying and buying of art. The 3-D virtual space was custom created for me by the Oarbt team.

Very excited about this upcoming group show with a great group of artists. I will be showing paintings that have never been shown, as well as, a new animated video of one of the paintings.

Carolyn Oberst’s robust body of painting, drawing, and sculpture has interrogated the construction of memory, patterning and nostalgia, themes of self-fashioning, and how codes of behavior are embedded in all forms of visual media. While historically she has used vintage toys as a source of inspiration, in her more recent work she incorporates icons culled from contemporary culture.

My first video animation project. An idea I had for a long time was completed and uploaded March 10, 2019.
Now available as an NFT: https://opensea.io/accounts/CarolynOberst.

A New York Magazine article on Carolyn Oberst.

In a seventeenth-century Dutch engraving, I find what seems to me an image of Surrealism and its ambiguous liberations. The mythical Pandora stands in front of a Dutch doorway, offering her infamous box (more like a chalice). Out of it come virtues and vices in equal measure, tiny winged creatures that fly up to heaven or spread out to populate the Earth and take dominion everywhere, an eruption of archaic anxieties into the bourgeois Dutch world.