An exhibition of recent abstract paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Carolanna Parlato.

In Parlato’s works, oozing paint flows interact with biomorphic blips and blobs, creating a dynamic fusion of high-keyed color and subtle surface modulations. Mirroring the tension between the synthetic plasticity of popular culture and a natural, elemental biology, the paintings establish their own particular beauty, filtering gesture through the saturated colors of cartoons. Central to these paintings is the relationship between the quasi-chance process of pouring and the rigor of the control that Parlato exercises over that procedure, a relationship that leaves the works suspended between the indeterminate and the intentional.

After receiving an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, Parlato’s work was included in Open House: Working in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Her paintings are represented in the Brooklyn Museum, Islip Art Museum, Reader’s Digest and Pfizer Inc.