All Tomorrow's Parties | Carol Lee Chase

In celebration of her forthcoming retirement, Associate Professor Carol Lee Chase considers her 40-year painting career. While her early work is marked by representational landscapes, her compositions have grown increasingly abstracted over time, with color, light and luminosity remaining central to her paintings. The artist explains: “My work has evolved to the space between abstraction and realism; I prefer to blend these approaches because I can reduce the structure of narration, and bring the viewer back to the experience of the painting rather than a literal interpretation of an image.” Chase’s content has evolved, too, and the paintings on view reveal the relationship between the natural, external world and the internal, corporeal experience of being human. Chase writes, “[the] tree image became more universal as a form of iconography that references both emotion and the human body.” 

This exhibition is a part of Twin Cities Art Week, September 28–October 1, 2023

Twin Cities Art Week is a celebration of the vibrant local contemporary art scene in 24 venues across Minneapolis and St. Paul. From September 28 – October 1, the Twin Cities Art Week will offer a full calendar of events including a gallery crawl, live performances, exhibition walkthroughs, film screenings, artist talks, parties and more. Spearheaded by Dreamsong, the participants of Twin Cities Art Week include major institutions, small non-profit spaces, commercial galleries, artist-run spaces and university galleries dedicated to the presentation of contemporary art.

Twin Cities Art Week Events at St. Catherine University

Saturday, September 30

6:00-8:30 PM

The Catherine G. Murphy Gallery and The O'Shaughnessy

St. Catherine University

2004 Randolph Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105

SOCIAL HOUR (6-7pm) + PERFORMANCE (7:30-8:30pm) / St. Kate's Evening with the Arts

Presented Alongside: Inducted | Bethany C. Rahn

Image: Carol Lee Chase, Summer Willow, 2019, oil on canvas, 32” x 40”