NAME: Carla Falb
BIRTH PLACE: Philadelphia, PA
BIRTH DATE: 12.24.61
BIOGRAPHY
Actually, Carla Falb is not a roller coaster fanatic and doesn't consider her work as literally depiciting the specific rides. Instead, Falb thinks of her Roller Coaster Series as being more about the layers of metaphorical meanings based on the various coasters' physical structures, sudden turns, extreme drops, and cyclical ride.
In 1983, after graduating from The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and The Philadelphia College of Art, Falb began exhibiting her Neo-Expressionist works at the Belanthi Gallery in New York. By the early nineties, her figurative imagery had evolved into curvilinear mandala-like abstractions. In 2001, while in the M.F.A. program at The University of the Arts, she began her current Roller Coaster Series which integrates her previous bodies of work: uniting representational imagery with abstract forms and concepts. Recently, her work was featured in "Spinning Worlds," an emerging artist exhibit at the Noyes Museum in New Jersey, and has been published in New American Paintings.
