Carole Rabe, Summer Day Kitchen, 2020
Three dimensions are playfully obvious in Carole Rabe’s collages in “Chasing Color” now at Concord Art Center. Rabe, a painter of interiorscapes in changing daylight, has said that after painting she uses up extra color by cleaning her brushes on scrap paper. The artist arranges the scrap papers to create new compositions, a sometimes-laborious process that Rabe says can take longer to complete than an oil painting. Summer Day Kitchen employs an intense palette–a bright, filtered light transfigures everyday objects. Skillfully arranged color, texture, and cutout shapes form a teasing puzzle of visibly three-dimensional surfaces.
Chasing Color is up until March 22 in Concord, Massachusetts.
A working sculptor 