The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
chromogenic print, laminated and mounted to panel
$3,500 USD
Imprint of Silence is a photographic meditation on censorship and erasure. Smoke drifts through the work like memory made visible—an echo of voices pressed into silence, of books burned or buried for daring to imagine too freely. In many pieces, the forms of the smoke mirror the storylines of banned and challenged books, their narratives briefly reassembled in air before fading away. Some works appear under the title F451, referencing Bradbury’s fire temperature and the countless pages reduced to ash. These images often suggest individual book spines, their abstracted interiors reflecting both destruction and the endurance of ideas. Others comprise The Library, where smoke rises into the towering spines of countless books—an imagined archive of stories once banned or challenged. Among them are traces of writers such as Maya Angelou, Art Spiegelman, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, alongside the many other voices that have faced suppression. Together, these works reflect both the scale of loss and the persistence of imagination. From the Nazi Degenerate Art exhibition to the banning of texts across history, and continuing to recent book bans, the silencing of creative expression has taken many forms. Imprint of Silence reminds us that ideas cannot be erased; they rise and fade like smoke, yet their traces linger.
— Carol Inez Charney
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Exhibitions
GROUP EXHIBITION | TEN PHOTOGRAPHS
April 3 - 19, 2025
Ten Photographs features a single work by each of ten photographers. The exhibition includes gallery artists Xavi Bou, David Burdeny, Carol Inez Charney, Cody Cobb, Joshua Jensen-Nagle, Jeffrey...
GROUP EXHIBITION | ELEMENTS: WATER
February 2 - 18, 2023
Foster/White Gallery returns to its series of group exhibitions focused on the classical elements with Elements: Water, featuring a range of media from photography and collage to painting, textile,...
GROUP EXHIBITION | SMALL WORKS
December 7, 2023 - January 20, 2024
Small Works will focus on small scale works, with the intention of making art more accessible to first time buyers and seasoned collectors alike. Drawing from existing and new pieces by gallery artists, there is something...
Carol Inez Charney | Secondhand Smoke
February 3 - 19, 2022
The colorful curls and wisps of smoke in Carol Inez Charney’s newest series are sophisticated and elegant while being rich with metaphor. The series, Secondhand Smoke, highlights the...
GROUP EXHIBITION | ELEMENTS: FIRE
November 4 - 20, 2021
The second of four group exhibitions grounded by the elements, Elements: Fire opens at Foster/White Gallery on November 4, 2021. A wide range of interpretations, the artwork in this...