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photo-eye Gallery Featured Work from Patty Carroll Delaney Hoffman
photo-eye Gallery features work from Photographer's Showcase artist, Patty Carroll, whose prints are increasing in price next week! Take a look before the chance passes you by!

Patty Carroll, Picknicky, 2016, Archival pigment print, 22 x 22," Edition of 20, $1500

In light of a price increase occurring on November 1, 2021, we've decided to turn the spotlight to some of our favorite images by Photographer's Showcase artist, Patty Carroll! Take a look below for new pricing information, and be in touch with any questions or purchase inquiries.

Blue by Joni Mitchell is one of my favorite albums. There is one line in the song “Case of You” that I always thought was funny when I was growing up that I recently realized perfectly encapsulates the essence of Patty Carroll’s series Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise. 

The line goes: “I am a lonely painter, I live in a box of paints.”

To be isolated by that which you love (or are told that you’re supposed to love) is something understood deeply by Patty Carroll.

The characters that populate her ongoing series, Anonymous Women, are faceless and dripping in opulent trimmings that fall in line with their often monochromatic (or close to it) surroundings, Carroll’s images are meticulously constructed. She has thought deeply about the objects that she surrounds her subjects with, though I can only imagine that their immobility is helpful to this process as well. 

The use of female-bodied mannequins as subjects in the work allows for Carroll to liberate herself from the limitations of working with a subject that has agency. This feels like a mimicry of the singular male gaze that classical art history is often associated with, but this is also a tactic that allows for an easily recognizable point of entry into her ideologically loaded images.

Below is one of my personal favorite images from Domestic Demise that also exemplifies the stance that Patty Carroll takes up as a contemporary artist and feminist, “Woman on a Pedestal" (2018):

Patty Carroll, Woman on a Pedestal, 2018, Archival pigment print, 22 x 22," Edition of 20, $1500

I love this image both formally and conceptually. I love the way that the palette of beiges and off-whites is incredibly gentle, but is also disrupted by the visibly uncomfortable pose of the primary subject. What does it mean to have a “woman” subject serve as the focal point of the image, but also to strip her of any and all identity outside of the whiteness that consumes her and the jewels that drip from her left hand? Patty Carroll speaks openly in her statement that Domestic Demise is ultimately comprised of continued retellings of the tragic story of the housebound wife who is entirely consumed by her possessions to the point of destruction, and it is worth noting that, even while our primary subject is being eaten alive by what protects her, her legs are still firmly crossed. How ladylike.

Patty Carroll’s images are a visual wonderland of humor, intellect and aesthetics, and "Woman on a Pedestal" is far from the only example. Check out more images from Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise below, and keep in mind that Patty Carroll’s prints are increasing in price on November 1, 2021!

15x15” Editions of 20: Increasing from $900 —> $1200
22x22” Editions of 20: Increasing from $1500 —> $2200
38x38” Editions of 10: Increasing from $3000-3500 —> $4000-4500


Patty Carroll, Canned, 2018, Archival pigment print, 22 x 22," Edition of 20, $1500

Patty Carroll, Cowgirl, 2020, Archival pigment print, 22 x 22," Edition of 20, $1500

Patty Carroll, Eden, 2020, Archival pigment print, 22 x 22," Edition of 20, $1500

Patty Carroll, Flower Painting, 2020, Archival pigment print, 22 x 22," Edition of 20, $1500



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Given amounts are starting print prices and are subject to change.

Patty Carroll is a Photographer's Showcase artist at photo-eye Gallery.

For more information, and to purchase prints by Patty Carroll please contact Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Delaney Hoffman, or you may also call us at 505-988-5152 x202



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photo-eye Gallery Images of Spring | Gallery Favorites photo-eye Gallery
Warmer days and lovely flowers are returning to the Northern Hemisphere. To welcome the return of Spring, we have selected eight images from our flat files connected to this invigorating season.

Tom Chambers, Spring's Landfall, 2006, archival pigment print, 20 x 20 inches, edition of 20, $1600

Warmer days and lovely flowers are returning to the Northern Hemisphere. To welcome the return of Spring, we have selected eight images from our flat files connected to this invigorating season.

Gathered on our blog, you will find a virtual trip outdoors through our collection of spring-inspired images from talented artists like Diana Bloomfield, Keith Carter, Hiroshi Watanabe and others — of peonies, butterflies, bird houses and more.

Take a look and enjoy!

 

 DIANA BLOOMFIELD

Diana Bloomfield, Drifting Peonies, 2018, tricolor gum bichromate over cyanotype, 12 x 9 inches, edition of 5, $1200


 
 

LAURIE TÜMER

 
Laurie Tümer, California Fronds, archival pigment print, 5 x 6 inches, edition of 30, $700
 

KEITH CARTER

 
Keith Carter, Full Length Birdhouses, archival pigment print, 16 x 16 inches, edition of 25, $1600

 

 

PATTY CARROLL

 

Patty Carroll, Spring Strips, archival pigment print, 15 x 15 inches, edition of 20, $900
   » Conversation with Patty Carroll and Anne Kelly
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All prices listed were current at the time this post was published.


For more information, and to purchase prints, please contact Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Patricia Martin, or you may also call us at 505-988-5152 x202


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photo-eye Gallery From the Flat Files: Staged Photography photo-eye Gallery
Staging a photograph is similar to the process of composing a canvas. Rather than capturing a fleeting moment, artists make specific choices when constructing their images — by intentionally placing elements and arranging compositions, they stage the environments and events.

Julie Blackmon, Snow Days, 2021, archival pigment ink, 22 x 29 inches, edition of 7, $4000

 
With or without snow (and yes it's melting), it seems like we’ve had 350 snow days in a row. I have so much respect for the parents who have spent months upon months nonstop with their kids underfoot. It’s unnatural and next to impossible.

The thing is, too much together time is hard, but too much alone time is, too. The simultaneous desire to connect and disconnect. They're such primal needs — the need to draw close and then to retreat.

— Julie Blackmon

 
Staging a photograph is similar to the process of composing a canvas. Rather than capturing a fleeting moment, artists make specific choices when constructing their images — by intentionally placing elements and arranging compositions, they stage the environments and events. The photographer, in addition to his role as an image-maker, also becomes a director, stage and costume designer, make-up artist and, occasionally, a performer as well.


This week we are thrilled to explore this exciting genre by taking a look at some of our favorite staged photographs from our collection. We start with Julie Blackmon's most recent image, Snow Days (pictured above). Enjoy!

 

Ernie Button

Ernie Button, Cheeramids #3, 2005, archival pigment print, 11 x 14 inches, edition of 20, $300

 
As part of our video series photo-eye Conversations, photo-eye Gallery Director Anne Kelly interviewed Ernie Button about his photographic practice and his most recent work from the Vanishing Spirits series. Watch their conversation on Vimeo.

» View More Work by Ernie Button



Richard Tuschman

Richard Tuschman, Pondering Life at Age 4, 2016-2020, archival pigment print, 14.5 x 21.5 inches, edition of 5, $2000
 
photo-eye Gallery is currently showing Richard Tuschman's My Childhood Reassembled, an online solo exhibition by the New York-based photographer. Be sure to check it out!

 
To learn more about Carla van de Puttelaar's work, check out the interview she did with photo-eye.
 

Anne Kelly interviewed Carroll about her photographic practice and her book Domestic Demise. This fabulous book comprises the fourth part of Carroll's ongoing photographic series “Anonymous Women.” Watch their amazing conversation on Vimeo.
 



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For more information, and to purchase prints, please contact Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Patricia Martin, or you may also call us at 505-988-5152 x202

 
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photo-eye Gallery From the Flat Files: Domestic Landscapes photo-eye Gallery
Over the past few months, we have been going through our collection and sharing some of our favorite photographs by the many great artists we represent. This week, for our installment of "From the Flat Files," we introduce a selection of works devoted to life at home.

Over the past few months, we have been going through our collection and sharing some of our favorite photographs by the many great artists we represent. This week, for our installment of "From the Flat Files," we introduce a selection of works devoted to life at home.

While this selection makes no attempt at sociological objectivity, we believe that the many styles it spans have much to say about the different perspectives on the settings, rituals, and moods of the American domestic landscape.

For instance, within this genre, we can find the staged pictures of Julie Blackmon, Jennifer Greenburg, and Patty Caroll. In Blackmon’s Play Group, a mother and her children gather in a chaotic and cramped entryway — toys and children rest equally scattered on the floor. In Napping with Floyd by Greenburg, a woman (the artist in character) naps on a couch with a siamese cat sitting on top of her. In Caroll’s Bookie, a figure poses, engulfed with books in a home library in disarray. Reworking the domestic cliches of popular imagery, these artists examine the role culture, media, and history have in shaping private lives. Although their approach to the domestic landscape is different, they share the conviction that something important is going on — external forces are playing out in the private sphere of the home.
 
Patty Carroll, Bookie, archival pigment ink, 22 x 22 inches, edition of 20, $1500
 
Some of the domestic landscapes we revisited are charged with feeling, such as those captured by Cig Harvey and Keith Carter. In both artists’ work, the domestic experience is described not from the detached viewpoint of the documentarist, but from within. Captivating photographs, such as Red Jacket (Hanging) by Harvey (a bright red jacket hanging from a pink peeling wall) and Ofrenda by Carter (a dreamy photograph of a bird on a plinth, flanked by lamps and heavy curtains), are rendered with an intimacy that only an insider could possess.
 
Keith Carter, Ofrenda, 1998, toned gelatin silver print, 15 x 15 inches, edition of 50, $1800

Between these divergent styles, a photographer like Tom Chambers blends reality and fantasy, provoking viewers to imagine the stories behind his pictures. In Chambers’s Glass Flower / Flor de Vidrio, a deer stands on top of a dining table while a young woman seems undisturbed, or not aware, of the surreal scene — our sense that this moment has been concocted only draws us deeper into its drama.
 
Tom Chambers, Glass Flower / Flor de vidrio, archival pigment ink print, 20 x 20 inches, edition of 20, $1200
 
Other artists working within the genre, such as Richard Tuschman, revisit the domestic myth from the perspective of painting, cinema and theatre. In the painterly Woman with Book and Letter (part of the artist's series Hopper Meditations), a woman sits at the edge of a bed absorbed in thought, perhaps thinking about the person who authored the letter. The theatrical and cinematic image, evokes nostalgia, the loss of a time long gone. 

Richard Tuschman, Woman with Book and Letter, 2013, archival pigment ink, 24 x 18 inches, edition of 9, $1500
 
Enjoy our selection! And please contact us if you would like more information about the photographs above.
 
 
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All prices listed were current at the time this post was published.
 
For more information, and to purchase prints, please contact Gallery Director Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant Patricia Martin, or you may also call us at 505-988-5152 x202
 



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photo-eye Gallery photo-eye Conversations | Patty Carroll and Anne Kelly photo-eye Gallery
As part of our video series photo-eye Conversations, photo-eye Gallery Director Anne Kelly interviewed Carroll about her photographic practice and her book Domestic Demise. This fabulous book comprises the fourth part of Carroll's ongoing photographic series “Anonymous Women.”

Patty Carroll, Victorian Birds, archival pigment ink print, 15 x 15 inches, edition of 20, $900
 
A quick glance at Victorian Birds reveals a figure sitting with her head buried in a desk. Weighted down by a heavy deep red velvet robe, in a somber green draped room, she is surrounded by birds of all kinds. Red parakeets pose on her, one on her left hand. A birdcage and an arrangement of regal peacock feathers are placed in the foreground. This photograph is simultaneously compelling, intimate, serious, humorous and sad. The sense of contradiction and frustration expressed in the image is exacerbated by the double-meaning of the Victorian bird figurines — by the confused symbols of freedom and enslavement they represent. During the Victorian era, women did not have the right to vote, sue or own property.
 
Patty Carroll is well-known for her heavily saturated, intense color images of domestic landscapes. Both, growing up in the suburbs of Chicago and her background in graphic design have informed much of her work. Throughout her career, she has also found inspiration in colorful vintage movies, decorating magazines and Victorian writing. 

In her studio, Carroll creates ornamented and imagined domestic scenes using mannequins as her models. Inundated by over-decorated rooms and engulfed by a multitude of objects, she photographs them with her digital medium-format camera. 
 
Carroll's work brilliantly addresses the complex relationship women have with domestic life — her captivating images portray everyday women who juggle home, family and careers. 
 
As part of our video series photo-eye Conversations, photo-eye Gallery Director Anne Kelly interviewed Carroll about her photographic practice and her book Domestic Demise. This fabulous book comprises the fourth part of Carroll's ongoing photographic series “Anonymous Women.” Watch this amazing conversation below or on Vimeo.
 

 
 

Don't miss the limited edition of Domestic Demise, exclusively found at photo-eye Bookstore! Limited to an edition of 5, this set includes a signed and numbered print of Shadow of Her Former Self with a signed copy of the book. 

Image size: 7x7 inches; paper size: 8½ x 8½ inches. 
Signed Copies $45.00 Limited Edition $130.00 
 


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Patty Carroll, Shadow of Her Former Self, archival pigment ink, 15 x 15 inches, edition of 20, $900
 

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