Caroline Kent is a Chicago based painter exploring ideas surrounding communication and language. Like poems, her abstract compositions evoke a concentrated, imaginative awareness of an experience or a specific emotional response using forms chosen and arranged for their meaning, impression, and rhythm. She found her way to Paulson Fontaine Press in 2022, and created four works titled “The Charlatan’s sleight of hand,” “A poem about the cosmos,” “Forest and Shadow,” and “We hold them inside us.” Caroline said this about the experience, “I go into things with little expectations because I don’t always have a lot of time to elaborately plan in advance and it’s produced a way of working that’s very immediate. In the first few hours here, I had made four compositions. I’m finding a lot of informal play in between these prints and what I do on the canvas, in the unstretched paintings and on the Belgian linen. Even moving into objects, like the wooden objects that accompany my paintings.”
