“For Carola Penn, urban life yields images that are like mental snapshots … rundown storefronts, bridge girders, parking lots, even manholes in the pavement. All unremarkable fragments within the city’s kaleidoscopic movement, they form an ongoing, open-ended narrative … [Compartments] freezes these fragments in thickly layered, low-key colors and stark images — visceral responses to emotional as well as architectural divisions, and to the gritty streets and their inhabitants.”
—Lois Allan, Artweek, 12/95
This series incorporates myths, dreams and references to the work of other painters.
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