Denise Carvalho
My recent work is influenced by classical music and opera, as my brushstrokes follow the rhythms of music or the intensity of its emotions, which I express through the liquid malleability of painting.
My method may take different incarnations, welcoming as cathartic, exhilarating expressions, or calm, rhythmic and balanced as a sunset.
My paintings reveal nature, as if its ethereal soul is redirected onto the canvas through a fluid and attuned but easily dispersive loving energy. I feel that painting is healing as well as a form of induction into higher plateaus of consciousness and emotional fluidity.
About Denise Carvalho
Denise Carvalho is a New York City-based painter. Her painting method is primarily based on intuition and step-by-step transformation, encompassing both abstract and figure painting. Denise’s art is influenced by the Brazilian neo-concretist style, which she blends with the geometric tendencies towards serendipitous motions of nature. She is also influenced by her family, early modernist art, academic training in New York, and international exhibitions.
Denise has exhibited since the 1980s, and some recent key exhibitions include:
2022 Area Share at Reisman Hall, Cazenovia College, New York
2021 Abstraction’s Spiritual Life, Cazenovia Public Library, New York
2021 Latin Parade at Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York
2019 Abstraction at Anita Shapolsky SoHo New York
2019 AD Art and MvVo Art at the World Trade Center
2019 Oculus Building street projection on East 53rd Manhattan
2018 Super Bodies at Anita Shapolsky Gallery, uptown NY.
2018 Different Strokes at Anita Shapolsky Gallery, uptown NY.
Denise published the book We are All Children at the End, a personal account from her upbringing in Brazil to her life in New York City and teaching her mother, who was struggling with Alzheimer's, how to draw and paint as a coping mechanism.
