Carson Garhart    

Garhart’s work centers around time and decay and their relationship to the aesthetics of disappearance. The artist places the normal entropy of an urban scenario into the context of aspect and composition. Paintings, photos, and photos of paintings are presented as inverse  topographies; oblique cartographies predispose their own decay. This is all achieved with the notion that beauty is at once serene, and transient. Inside these dichotomies paintings are simple flowing gestures, interspersed with specific geometric passages. Representational figures move just outside of spectrum as shades of white and pastel hint at shadows, certain times of day, and night.

The artist’s experience of moving through time as a transcendental being is the central essence that this work provides. In this way, process becomes a phenomenological practice of self-discovery.