"ANONYMOUS WOMEN"
Making a home, whatever through physical renovation or an internal sense of comfort, remains a constant, universal issue for many women. In an atmosphere of perceived external threats to safety and security, the home takes on more importance; it is a source of calm and refuge, but it is also a place that is often overly decorated, orderly to the point of perfection, and excessive as an expression of woman’s status. As a woman artist, I am addressing the double edge of domesticity; the home provides comfort but can also be place where embellishment can substitute for internal ills, or hide personal truths.
"ANONYMOUS WOMEN"
Making a home, whatever through physical renovation or an internal sense of comfort, remains a constant, universal issue for many women. In an atmosphere of perceived external threats to safety and security, the home takes on more importance; it is a source of calm and refuge, but it is also a place that is often overly decorated, orderly to the point of perfection, and excessive as an expression of woman’s status. As a woman artist, I am addressing the double edge of domesticity; the home provides comfort but can also be place where embellishment can substitute for internal ills, or hide personal truths.
Patty Carroll is a photographer and Adjunct Professor at the School of the Art Institute and Columbia College in Chicago. She has taught photography at other institutions including the Institute of Design at IIT and Royal College of Art in London, and has participated in numerous group and one-person exhibitions, with work in several museums internationally.
She is the photographic author of 3 books:
“Spirited Visions”, a book and exhibit of portraits of Chicago artists in 1992;
“Culture is Everywhere”, published by Prestel in 2002;
“Living the Life: The World of Elvis Tribute Artists”, 2005
Selected one-person exhibits including:
“Are You Lonesome Tonight” at the Royal Photographic Society in Bath, England 1996
“Elvis?” at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago in 1999
“Dark and Deadly: Photographs and Digital Movie Posters”, at The Art Institute of Chicago in 2004.
She has guest curated exhibitions including:
“American Made: The New Still Life” which toured in Japan, 1993
“The constructed Self”, 1998
“E2K:Elvisions: 2000” at Intuit, the Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art in 2000.
She was the recipient of an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Illinois Art Council in 2003, and was Artist Residence at Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Japan in 1999, Texas A&M University in 2005, Coulmbia College in 2006-07, Anderson Ranch in 1998.
