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    • celebrating woman artists
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    • Pop Up.. the artwork of Ty fawley
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Eilene Carver

The Target series address the personal and public impact of gun violence that has become an undesirable societal constant for our nation.  The Stockton school shooting in 1989 haunted me for decades. Sandy Hook compelled me to symbolically depict the intimate personal loss of these ‘small targets’.   Google research displays shooting incidents as drop pins scattered across the United States map. The numerous overlapping pins block prior events, creating a parallel to our overloaded consciousness.
Our collective conscience is numbed to the impact of each personal loss as this epidemic of gun violence spreads.  These random acts aimed at our schools, theaters, nightclubs, concerts, churches and countless individuals wear on our corporate psyche. I aim for these images surreptitiously confront the viewer with their sober message. Layering content is as integral to my process as layering paint.
Expressing the effects of light and color on forms is a constant in my work. I purpose physically textural surfaces in this series to create a tumultuous subtext. In the school specific works somber palettes naturally emerged in the creative process, due to my emotional involvement with the subject.  
I contend more stringent policies towards gun reform are necessary to reduce the incidents of gun violence in our country. This series is intended to confront individuals with the reality of personal loss and ignite empathy for the families and victims beyond the ’24-hour news cycle’.
I would like to see these paintings stir emotions, spur dialogue and provoke impactful change regarding this complicated dilemma. 
​I believe if this issue is
ignored, we are all possible ‘Targets.’


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Next 10 x 10 Mixed Media Collage $350
ABC 9 x 9 Mixed Media Collage $150
Hope 9 x 9 Mixed Media Collage $125
Unsafe 12 x 12 Mixed Media Collage $125
Guns Across and Down 9 x 9 Mixed Media SOLD
Sandy Hook School 24 x 24 Mixed Media Collage $700
Warning Signs 24 x 24 Mixed Media Collage $900
Red Shoes for Oeun Lim 24 x 24 Acrylic and Oil on Canvas $1000
Stockton Murders | Sparrows 12 x 12 Mixed Media Collage $200
Dancing Targets | Pulse Nightclub 36 x 36 Acrylic and Oil $1500
Valentine’s Day | We will never be the Same 16 x 12 Oil on Canvas $1800
Overcome 16 x 20 Oil on Canvas $1500
Help 12 x 12 Acrylic and Oil on Canvas $200
Peek-A-Boo | Columbine 36 x 36 Acrylic and Oil on Canvas $1200
Only Magic Ball Knows 16 x 20 Acrylic and Oil on Canvas $1500
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      • Chris Brown.
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  • Previous Shows
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    • All for One | One for All
    • Milessa Murphy Stewart
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    • Soft and Hard of 3D
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    • L'Fleur de Art
    • me myself and i 2022
    • Lucy Tolkunova
    • Jodie Beck
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    • Le Salon
    • RED
    • celebrating woman artists
    • emerging
    • Pop Up.. the artwork of Ty fawley
    • Soft and Hard of 3d
    • inbetween by Romulo Martinez
    • GUNS in USA 2020
      • Didi AlKassih
    • Solo Show | Keith Miller
    • art en blanc 2020
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    • eye of the lens
    • RED 2019
    • BLUE 2019
    • Art en Blanc 2018
    • NORTH
    • students@work2018
    • Eye of the Lens 2017
    • Targets and Tangents
    • Art Fair
    • forty @ 100
    • RED 2018
    • Olivia Ogren-Hrejsa’s solo show
    • 50yrs of Art and Love
    • Envision Arts Project | Aptitude
    • TIME | Peggy Nichols Collection Art and Love
    • Art en Blanc 2017
    • Chet Tucker | the journey
    • through the eye of lens 2016
    • Tom Freeman|Solo Show
    • RED | 2017
    • PIECES of PIECES
    • Out Of My Mind
    • RED2020
    • Debra Helmburger Photography
    • Botanicals
    • Conduit
    • the heArt project
    • RED 2016
    • 101x101
    • Five In One
    • artseen tour frisco 2015
    • IDENTITY
    • Ecology
    • PLAY
    • BLUE
    • asher d feehan
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    • art for art sake
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    • festival of trees
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    • identity and cast 2013
    • North Texas Printmakers Guild
    • Looking Around - Solo Show of Misty Oliver Foster
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    • me myself and i
    • misty oliver - foster
    • Originals
    • PLACE
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    • six
    • SPRING-thePersian New Year
    • water
    • Trois Colors
    • Earth Day
    • Melange of Color
      • Andrea Lamarsaude
      • Anindita Dasgupta
      • Bev Calton
      • Cynthia Coldren
      • Kathleen Mekailek
      • Kathy Mackey
      • Lavanya Challa
      • Madhupriya Srinivasan
      • Matt Chenet
      • Milessa Murphy Stewart
      • Patty Lebed Hess
      • Romulo Martinez
      • Sharonza Penson
      • Terry Parshall
      • Trish Poupard
    • water
    • Celebration Night
    • BLUE 2020
    • Festival of Trees
    • MIX Art Exhibition 2021
    • The Mix Exhibition The Gallery 8680
    • Photography 2020
      • Suad Bejtovic
      • Kenneth Harrison
      • Christer Hiort
      • Patty Lebed Hess
      • Maegan Kirschner
      • John Lightle
      • Brandi Mieger
      • Christine Miller
      • Cheryl Parshall
      • Any Santos