CARSON, Karen

Collage

30 1/2 x 22"

Carson completed this work when she was teaching in Las Vegas in the 1990s. Las Vegas is what the artist characterizes as a “total here and now culture” where people can forget their past and pay no attention to the future. Carson found this ethos, along with a gratitude for life, reflected in Zen Buddhism, which she embraced following a health crisis. Study for Sandwich uses the same pop signage associated with Las Vegas and a pithy statement (“birth—thank you—death”) to encapsulate these concepts.

1994

CARSON, Karen

United States, b. 1943

Gift of Laurence A. Rickels

2011.004.023