“The Present Moment of the Past”
Paintings
Caren Canier
Curator: Margaret Kuntz
Exhibit: March 24 – April 18, 2009
Opening Reception: April 3, 2009, 5:30-8:00 PM
For more information please contact:
(973) 408 – 3758 or email: ghiltlco@drew.edu
The Korn Gallery is pleased to announce the exhibition of paintings by Caren Canier which will be on view from March 24 through April 17, 2009. The work is located in the Korn Gallery in the Dorothy Young Center for the Arts at Drew University. The Gallery is open Tuesday through Friday from 12:30-4:00 PM and by appointment.
Caren Canier is a painter who lives and works in Troy, New York. Her paintings draw from nature, art, historical sources, as well as images from her own family history. The paintings reflect on the influence of past memories on our present consciousness. Caren Canier received a BFA from Cornell University and a MFA from Boston University. She was awarded a Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant, received the Artist’s Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and won the Rome Prize Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome. Ms. Canier has had many solo shows in the United States and Italy. She is a Professor in the Arts Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY.