Anonymous Women: Heady

Patty Carrol stament: ”Photographers observe, comment, criticize, and make fun of the worlds we live in by interacting with reality, and visibly displaying those perceptions in images. My training was as a straight, documentary photographer, but I stray back into the studio to make up fictional worlds.

I believe that every artist has a moment or time which became a defining point in their life view, and as we struggle to discover it, we repeat work trying to either recreate that moment, or possibly redefine it. As our inner and outer worlds collide, photography seems to be the most satisfying way of expressing that convergence.

Perhaps there are several moments that define a personality, and I look deeply for each one as it emerges. Artists often go to great lengths to find their soul place. Fortunately for me in this work, I only have to return to Park Ridge, either metaphorically or in actuality to find my defining moments and place.”

Patty Carrol“>Patty Carroll has been teaching university level photography since leaving graduate school at the Institute of Design at IIT. As this career took up most of her earlier years, she is now able to explore and develop her work more fully while teaching part time at The School of the Art Institute and Columbia College in Chicago. Patty has participated in numerous group and one-person exhibitions, has work in several museums internationally, and has also produced three photographic books; Spirited Visions a book and exhibit of portraits of Chicago artists in 1992, Culture is Everywhere in 2002, andLiving the Life: The World of Elvis Tribute Artists in 2005.

Selected one-person exhibits include “Are You Lonesome Tonight” at Royal Photographic Society in Bath, England in 1996, and “Elvis?” at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago in 1999, and a one-person museum exhibition of her “Faux Film Posters” at the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004.

Patty Carroll has also curated several exhibitions; American Made: The New Still Live which toured Japan, 1993, The Constructed Self, 1998, and E2K: Elvisions: 2000. In 1998 Patty was granted a residency at Akiyoshai Art Center in Japan, and in 1999 she was also given a short residency at Anderson Ranch in Colorado where she started to expand her work in digital format. Aside from other small grants, she received an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Illinois Arts Council in 2003.

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