Carole Caroompas reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail

“Caroompas’s interweaving of collage techniques and painterliness includes such depictions as indigenous tribal blanket patterns in some works, with nods to film history encapsulated in painted sequences of celluloid movie frames. Musical scores and notes may not be present in this selection of paintings, but their paraphrases of record covers and portraits of musicians—including, notably, Nick Cave and Janis Joplin—cue viewers to remember this or that hit song. Dense layerings of affect can be seen in all of the pictures here. Caroompas lived and worked in a studio on Hollywood Boulevard for many years and prowled the byways of the broadcasting and music industries seeking situations where mediated cultural archetypes slipped just a bit in their mechanisms of consumerist reification and distraction. The Anton Kern press release qualifies Caroompas’s criticality stating, ‘She does not simply condemn the dynamics embedded within these cultural threads; her paintings reveal an equal fascination with the media she consumes, and an acknowledgment of being as captivated by these myths as anyone else.’” -Buzz Spector⁠

 

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Carole Caroompas is on view through October 22, 2025 on gallery floor 3.

October 1, 2025