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Platonic Solids Deconstructed: Symphony

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Carrie Crane, Boylston, Massachusetts

Materials: Acrylic and graphite on paper mounted on masonite

Size: 9 × 12 inches, [click image for full view]

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Carrie Crane’s geometric drawings completely pull you in. Her technical drawings feel like impossible psychological machines — part invention, part maze and part unfolding story. There’s something universally familiar in them at first, like a game of Mouse Trap reimagined. Then the deeper you look, the more emotionally layered and abstract they become.

What makes Carrie’s drawings so compelling is her ability to balance precision with imagination. Every mark feels intentional, and her engineered drawings never feels cold. Her diagrams twist and unravel like visual narratives, inviting people of all backgrounds into the piece while still holding incredible cerebral depth. It’s the kind of work people cannot stop looking at because there is always another pathway, another strange connection, another discovery waiting inside it.

Carrie Crane, Boylston, Massachusetts

Materials: Acrylic and graphite on paper mounted on masonite

Size: 9 × 12 inches, [click image for full view]

Shipping: Included in price

Carrie Crane’s geometric drawings completely pull you in. Her technical drawings feel like impossible psychological machines — part invention, part maze and part unfolding story. There’s something universally familiar in them at first, like a game of Mouse Trap reimagined. Then the deeper you look, the more emotionally layered and abstract they become.

What makes Carrie’s drawings so compelling is her ability to balance precision with imagination. Every mark feels intentional, and her engineered drawings never feels cold. Her diagrams twist and unravel like visual narratives, inviting people of all backgrounds into the piece while still holding incredible cerebral depth. It’s the kind of work people cannot stop looking at because there is always another pathway, another strange connection, another discovery waiting inside it.

Carrie Crane, Boylston, Massachusetts

STATEMENT


I often find myself of two minds, each at odds with the other.  The Platonic Solids Deconstructed paintings exemplifies this condition. I am intrigued and reassured by the patterns, systems, and laws that hold our physical and societal worlds together. I rely on these laws, mostly without awareness, fascinated by their structure and rationale.

Yet, a rebel side of me is obliged to challenge the laws and pattern, to put them to the test, to pull, twist and tweak them. If I push the assumptions, what might I learn? These opposing views first drew me to the peculiarities and distinct laws of the Platonic solids and then compelled me to mess with them, to deconstruct them.

Starting with a drawing or sketch of a Platonic solid, using a grid of precise overlapping circles as a guide, I edited the shape—eliminating sides, create protrusions, stretching walls, rendering inside and outside unclear, but always anchoring to the grid.  The grid is then erased but its essence is there holding the chaos together.  The result is a sense of spatial ambiguity which is at once playful and rebellious.

Carrie Crane’s practice fuses scientific thought and art to address issues of truth, ambiguity and healthy skepticism.  Her work includes sculptural constructions, sketches, paintings and texts which imply measurement in the form of maps, diagrams, scientific models and instruments.  

Carrie has been making art since the 1990s in Boylston MA.  She holds an MFA from Lesley University, as well as a BA in Geography from the University of Massachusetts.  Her accomplishments include residencies with the National Science Foundation, Clark University’s Physics Department, and Mass MoCA., a commission from the Mayo Clinic, first prize in the Fitchburg Art Museum’s Regional Exhibition. She is a member of the Boston Sculptors Gallery.