"Launching Dreams" Bubble Boy Oil Painting by Joan Carl Strauss

In the oil portrait "Launching Dreams," Joan Strauss Carl captures a moment of a little boy playing with soap bubbles, conveying spontaneity, softness, and playfulness. The play of light on the bubbles aptly echoes the portrait's title. Like soap bubbles, dreams are fleeting and delicate, beautiful and enchanting at the moment, yet easily burst into nothingness. This portrait is painted on masonite and sits in its original weathered frame.

Joan Strauss Carl was a Los Angeles artist, teacher, and humanitarian activist. She was a past president of the Los Angeles Art Association and has left a formidable body of her work and commissions in private collections, museums, and houses of worship. She was a prolific sculptor and painter. After studying art in Cleveland and at the Art Institute of Chicago, she travelled West. Her decision had proved smart as she quickly had six one-man shows and was consistently accepted in the very important invitational, juried exhibitions from San Francisco to San Diego. A quote from her exhibition: Joan Carl – One-Man Sculpture Show. “My work is my way of life. It is a constant search and examination and questioning of ideas as well as form and substance, and yet each new creation is a re-affirmation of respect and love of humanity and life.” Joan was represented by Paideia Gallery in Los Angeles and resided in Sherman Oaks, California for many years. As a sculptor, she worked in many mediums, including bronze, terracotta, stone, and wood.

REFERENCE NUMBER: LU654311888202
PERIOD: Mid-20th Century
CONDITION: Good
MEASUREMENTS: Height: 51.75" Width: 23.38" Depth: 3.25"
COUNT: 1
MATERIAL: Oil
CREATOR: Joan Carl Strauss