Artist's Statement
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Shadows greet us whenever the sun is out. Opposites inevitably\, i nextricably\, \;exist alongside one another\, loop-stepping through ti me. Every boundary between them \;is a place\, a threshold where we me et each other. Here : a place between the sun and \;the moon\, shadow and sunray. Grief and hope\, love and heartbreak\, fear and trust\, \; endings and beginnings\, above and below. We greet all of it. We must.&nbs p\;I wonder about the things we think are beautiful in these boundary plac es (a \;boundary place\, is after all\, EVERY place). I wonder about t he things we do not think \;are beautiful in these places. A slow para de of glory and sorrow\, as we wander through \;the big meadow called &lsquo\;life&rsquo\; together. In the hills not far from here\, the late s eason \;sunflowers are blooming on the edges of a burn scar that once held a grove of sumac I \;would visit every fall. In the spring\, myrt le spurge covers the hillside &ndash\; the most beautiful \;plant whos e sap can make a person go blind. Invasive. Must be treated all the way&nb sp\;down to the root. \;
\nI am talking about bringing everythin g to the meadow. \;In order to bring my care I must also bring my fear . In order to bring my hope I must also \;bring my anger\, my grief. A ll of this under the huge umbrella called love. \;We and all our beast s belong everywhere\, at every threshold : you\, me\, that doe\, that \;rock\, this heartbreak\, this hope.
\nThis work explores the tensi on and harmony of these boundary places\, what it feels like \;to reco gnize the collision of many feelings. It aims to meet the confusion and ca cophony \;with curiosity. This curiosity is a doorway into deep kinshi p with the unknowable \;everything. How much of this unfolding can we make ourselves available to?
\nArtist's Bio
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Caro Nilsson was born in 1993 in Vancouver\, Washington and has spe nt her life in \;different corners of the United States. She holds a B .A. in Fine Art with a Distinguished \;Major in Printmaking\, and a B. S. in Architecture from the University of Virginia. Caro has \;shown w ork in various galleries in Salt Lake City and Charlottesville. In 2025\, Caro \;presented &lsquo\;For Those Who Bear Witness&rsquo\; at the Nor theastern Nevada Museum\, which \;is a body of work about air quality in the Salt Lake Valley and the larger Mountain West. \;She completed her first solo painting residency in Connecticut in 2021\, and was hosted& nbsp\;as an artist-in-residence at the Taft Nicholson Center in Montana su mmer of 2024. Caro \;currently lives as a multi-media painter and mura list\, painting full time from Salt Lake \;City.
\nRooted in tra ditions of impressionism\, Caro&rsquo\;s paintings are poems about the lan d. They \;explore the idea that opposites are often holding hands (gri ef+hope\, \;stillness+movement\, anger+joy)\, and landscapes are a sta ge on which these \;relationships unfold. Her work understands that th e act of observation (beyond just that \;of sight) is like casting a s pell\, it has the ability to shift everything around us. Painted \;pri marily through memory\, the facts of the place blur and become less import ant than \;the feelings\, the exaggerations closer to something that i s the whole truth. Through the \;simple act of noticing\, even the mos t unremarkable parts of the landscape become full \;of mystery and exc itement\, a world of hidden stories\, meant to be uncovered by those \ ;who take the time to listen.
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