Carin Kulb Dangot V. 2

Carin Kulb Dangot is a contemporary painter and sculptor who has exhibited across the Northeastern United States and internationally in São Paulo, Brazil and London. Recent solo exhibitions in New York include established firms such as Richard James Savile Row and Cassidy Turley as well as galleries such as ChaShaMa Gallery and Narthex Gallery. Her recent collective exhibitions include SCL Law Firm and The Painting Center in New York, Drawings Rooms in Jersey City, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery in Philadelphia. Carin’s awards include grants and recognition from the New York Foundation for the Arts as well as the Art Students League of New York, and her works remain in collections in New York and Brazil.

The paintings and sculptures of Carin Kulb Dangot fully explore the potential of stretching the limits of paint. From abstract forms which resemble both dilapidated structures and organic substances to short sculptures made with slabs of acrylic paint resembling fiber, these experimental works in both 2-D and 3-dimensions reflect an artist tapping into different genres, such as urban design elements as well as creating paintings vaguely resembling aqua and fauna. Some of the paintings could be mistaken for printmaking due to their flat forms and the sculptures as folds of fabric instead of strips of acrylic paint. Such manipulation of substances reveals great control over the physical structure of paint in both solid and fluid form.

Child-like and with bold colors followed with sometimes muted undertones, the artworks of Carin Kulb Dangot reveal circumstances of fantastical wonder. She creates realms of manic escape based on form and hue. The curvature and organic structure of her art reveals distortions and abstractions based on reality but also far removed from familiar connotations. Upon further investigation of her work we will find a thoroughly experimental mindset and aesthetic. Almost figurative, but not quite, these concoctions reveal forms which seem pushed around and impounded, as if a person in as state of decay. If the sculptures and paintings were people, they would represent fascinating but helpless creatures, distorted and crippled in form but jubilant in color and elasticity. 

Pack (pictured above) depicts one of Carin’s sculpture pieces created with slabs and strips of paint. Seemingly resembling vinyl, plastic, and fiber simultaneously, the piece contains organic structure conveying both figurative and the abstract. Pack exemplifies Carin Kulb Dangot’s ability to blur the line between figurative and abstraction, the familiar with the unfamiliar, and the macabre with the joyfully peculiar as well as strange. 

With a dynamic broad display of experimental work in both 2-D and 3-Dimensional form, Carin Kulb Dangot uses exercises in both stretching the limit of distortion as well as revealing curvature and structure with masterful application and strokes. These configurations in paint, whether solid or fluid, dabble in the prospects of negative space and spherical as well as angular concoctions. Such cultured structures and exercises of form convey an artist willing to grapple with various themes such as child-like innocence followed by the macabre of distorted helpless form resembling an almost figurative entity. This dichotomy shows a complexity in understanding in the elastic qualities of paint as well as being a substance of great flexibility and versatility.

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