Miriam Carothers
@miriamcarothers | www.miriamcarothers.com
Miriam Carothers makes paintings that synthesize the effects of technology on culture. Her adapted symbols depict imagined scenarios impacting the error budget of systems we depend on. Glitches, screens, signal loss, static, and broken avatars in ecstatic fits of liberation figure in her work. She pulls the untouchable scroll datastreams down out of the air and places them on canvas.
Carothers attended Pratt Institute and received her MFA from New York Academy of Art in 2023. Past exhibitions include Forum Gallery, NYC; Spring Break Art Show 2020 & 2023; Viborg Kunstal Gallery, Denmark; Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stonybrook University LI; SELECT Art Fair, Art Basel, Miami; Gallery SENSEI, NYC; Lodge Gallery, NYC; Superchief, Brooklyn; and Royal Society of American Art, Brooklyn. Carothers lives and works in Brooklyn.
“My current series of paintings are inspired by the work of Site Reliability Engineers who keep the systems we depend on functioning. An example of a system collapse or outage is the recent Microsoft Windows/Crowdstrike incident which disrupted travel, financial, hospital & online operations worldwide. Faulty code & bugs are anthropomorphized as robots within these fraction of a percentage error budgets when vital platforms break.
The ‘SLO Violations/Excursion’ series of paintings are a conceptual puzzle depicted through formal tendencies, mixing gestural brushwork implying motion blur, vague figuration and the composition of spaces in the midst of formation.
I paint crumbs of data gone haywire- offering images to represent the imperceptible “misbehaving” code for the SRE or viewer to make sense of.”
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SLO Excursion #1, 2024
Oil on canvas
17.5 x 13.5 inches framed
SLO Excursion #2, 2024
Oil on canvas
13.5 x 10.5 inches framed
SLO Excursion #3, 2024
Oil on canvas
11 x 9 inches framed
SLO Excursion #4, 2024
Oil on canvas
11.5 x 9.5 inches framed
SLO Excursion #5, 2024
Acrylic on canvas
30 x 20 inches unframed