Artist: Kristin Alley Carver
Title: Cloud Cover
Medium: Multi plate Linocut
Dimensions: 29.5 X 41.5 inches
Artist Statement: Some years ago I watched a news story about AutoTune in the music industry (a technology that cleans up imperfect sound and broadcasts “clean” and “perfect” sound). I was genuinely heartbroken and felt tricked. Over the years I have noticed, in one form or another, the “AutoTuning” of the entire human experience. From bodies to my own highlight reel on social media. Flaws are something to scrub away, reverse, paint over and hide. Cloud Cover was, first, drawn loosely with a brush and India Ink on a linoleum block. I let the brush strokes fly wildly and impulsively. When the plate was dry and full of marks I took to carving. I made a determined and strained effort to carve every stray mark, reverencing the smallest thin line- letting it become part of the larger whole. Cloud Cover is about embracing raw human experience and honoring the painful, ugly, uncomfortable and hidden parts of our experience.
Artist Bio: Born and raised in the mountains, Kristin Alley Carver is a graduate of the Fine Arts (emphasis in printmaking) and Special Education programs of USU. Motherhood, love, nature, and eternal questions inform much of her work. Crafting images to record memories and impressions is an essential life practice. She finds the physicality, rich beauty of mark making, and surprise of relief printmaking a fulfilling medium to record bits of her story.
