Mary Carlson

 
   
 
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Mary Carlson creates sculptures of blood splats by attaching and intertwining small intensely red glass beads into an intricate swirling mass that both clings to and emerges from the wall. The eventual awareness of the bloody imagery brings this seductive, jewel-like construction into a more jarring visceral realm.

  
  

     © sarah bowen gallery. new york, 2005