Difference & Repetition

2024
Lisa Sette Gallery

Carrie Marill speaks of her “love for combining worlds,” and her research and practice examining pattern, color, and form in both folk and fine art result in works that are luminously personal and formally precise. Marill lists the contrasts that inspire her, from “craft and architecture, masculine and feminine, beauty and utility” to “hard and soft, structure and freeform, handwork and mechanization.” In Marill’s recent works, inspired by her study of modernist architects and folk quilts, the artist delineates these human contrasts in geometrical explorations. The personal characteristics of built spaces and objects are tangible in these works: the simple physique of a chair, the human spaces around which a building is built, the soft precision of a quilt made from textile remnants already worn close for a lifetime.  “I have been looking at architecture and how the patterns found in modern/minimalist architecture utilize similar patterns as found in quilt making. Architecture can create light, airy space out of steel, metal and concrete. Could quilts create a similar effect? What if a building were a quilt? I want to capture that in a painting.”