Tim Carrier

Carrier's mixed medium portraits ask more questions than they answer. His Adam and Eve, locked in a posture of possessor and possessed allows us to question, perhaps for the first time, Adam's role in the downfall: innocent bystander or controlling instigator? A woman portrayed with a lap full of props, telephone, rolling pin, comments on the delicate balancing act most women call life on earth. Carrier's favorite series, studies of men drinking coffee, speaks to the ultimate American leitmotif, the sacrament of java in heavy china diner cups at the altar of formica booths.