Her second best creation: How a baby taught a mother to see anew [TWO GUNS ART SHOW]
Carrie Dietz Brown has always painted home. Her paintings from recent years vary widely by subject but share some key elements — cakes and coffee and turntables and records and flowers and potted plants, dishes over there in the sink, guitars and ukes and even an occasional banjo as well as quilts and blankets and cool lamps on even cooler lamp stands and, maybe most importantly, friends, usually dark-haired women, sitting together sharing a book or a look or a talk over a cup of tea. Sometimes someone else is over there in the corner, maybe cradling an instrument with a pile of sheet music at her feet. Almost always there is an indifferent cat somewhere on the scene. But they are all together, usually in a warmly-wrought room, sometimes outside in a garden or on a pacific coast under the presence of a dramatic moon. What binds it all together is it’s all homey, or at least in Dietz Brown’s sense — she is a musician as well as a visual artist — of what a home is. “There’s a lot of repetition,” Dietz Brown said. “I’ve spent a lot of time in my life at home — I’m definitely a homebody, but home has always been filled with people and music and plants and cats.” Then along came a true…
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