GALLERY | JULY 3–31 | BY APPOINTMENT | FREE

Rust by Thomas Carney
Paintings, Poetry, and Mixed Media Work

This exhibit will be on view during public FUSION events or by appointment from July 3–31. To schedule a visit, Email FUSION. Opening Reception: Friday, July 3, from 5–8 PM as part of The ABQ Artwalk and First Friday ARTScrawl.

“Art is my joy, my work, and what has kept me going through dark times and wonderful times.

Born in rust Learned in rust Believed in rust

Change alongside me I am rust.”

—Thomas Carney

Rust, a solo exhibition on view at FUSION | 708 this July, features paintings, poetry, and mixed media work by Albuquerque artist Thomas Carney.

A poet, painter, and mixed media artist, Thomas Carney was raised in Charles Town and Dorchester, in Boston. He studied art at Mass College of Art before moving to San Francisco, where he earned his BFA at the San Francisco Art Institute (1989). He has since lived in Flagstaff, Oakland, Marin County, and Austin, TX, before settling in Albuquerque. In New Mexico, he found a creative home in the community art studios at ArtStreet (Albuquerque Healthcare for the Homeless) and OffCenter Community Arts Project.

In his paintings, abstract expressionist color fields spread like urban survivalist groundcover taking root atop the concrete, dirt, rust, and grime of our city streets. Scrapes, lumps of scar tissue, occasional open slashes persist with layers of tender complexity. His work faces the often harsh realities of life, of stubbornly resplendent life, of—amidst it all—beauty insisting on its right simply to be.

This exhibit will be on view during public FUSION events or by appointment from July 3–31. To schedule a visit, Email FUSION. Opening Reception: Friday, July 3, from 5–8 PM as part of The ABQ Artwalk and First Friday ARTScrawl.