Carrie Rudd’s The lips, the teeth, the tip of the tongue presents paintings that fuse intellect and intuition, humor and doubt. Treating abstraction as an essayistic process, Rudd transforms personal experience and linguistic inquiry into visual experiments that test meaning itself. Her canvases oscillate between irony and sincerity, theory and feeling—where color, gesture, and wit collide in pursuit of what she calls the “intermediate impossible,” a space where contradictions reveal clarity.
