Maryrose Carroll

1944, Chicago. Acclaim for Carroll's work began at 13 when she was awarded a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago's Saturday Program. In 1974 she sold her house, left her teaching position in rural Illinois to move back to Chicago, making her home and studio in a former charcoal factory. At the Richard Gray Gallery she met her husband to be, the famous poet, publisher of Big Table, Paul Carroll. In 1993 she and Paul left their factory loft to move to a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. It is in this beautiful setting that she continued to work with metal, ceramic, cast stone and resin sculpture incorporating, poetry, sound and water, assisted by her Scottish sculpture partner, Joseph E. Potter. Often they embed poems by her late husband in the sculpture they fabricate. "the interconnection of nature, work, fruitfulness and the rhythms of the universe are enduring currents in Maryrose Carroll's sculpture". " critic Dennis Adrian
Now at 67, Maryrose has shifted her attention to a new project, incorporating the daily numbers appearing without explanation on her solar calculator. To initiate the work on this new seriesand celebrate the 30th anniversary of her 1982 book, "Alice's Book" she will be offeri...

Museum CollectionsMiami University Art Museum, Oxford Ohio (Netsch Collection) Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio (NEA Purchase)Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL (Award Purchase)Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT (Sol LeWitt Collection)Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (Dennis Adrian Collection)Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, IL (gift of Dennis Adrian)Public Sculpture2006Gateway Plaza Sculpture, Turchin Center for the Visual Arts (waiting on a NEA Grant) Appalachian State University, Boone, NC Aluminum, water, fiber optic lighting, landscaping, benches, with embedded poetry by Paul Carroll, 1927-1996. 2006 The Deep Red of My Excited Heart, Belk Library and Information Commons, Appalachian State University, (selected) Boone, NC2001 Tower of Miracles, Millennium Sculpture, City of Hickory, NC1998 Ancient Wisdom, Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, NC 1998 Monet Lilies, Cape Fear Botanic Garden, Fayetteville, NC1998 Wind Whispers, MCI corporate headquarter, Raleigh, NC1996 Column on the Pond, Kuralt Social Services, Charl...

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