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Patty Carroll Art

American, b. 1946

Patty Carroll is an American photographer who has taught and practiced photography since the 1970s. Her images are characterized as vivid and boldly colored. Where her earlier works include typologies and portraiture, her new work symbolically expresses the domestic roles of women via the series “Invisible Women.” Carroll earned a bachelor of fine arts in graphic design from the University of Illinois and, in 1972, she graduated with a master of science in photography from the Institute of Design at IIT, Chicago.

Since receiving her MS in photography, Carroll has been teaching photography at universities worldwide. She has been a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College and the Royal College of Art in London, among other schools. Carroll’s photography has been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Art Institute in Chicago, White Box Museum in Beijing, and the Photographers Association in Ningbo, China.

Carroll’s work has received many merits, publications and grants. In 2014, she was listed in Photolucida’s “Top 50” after her most recent series, “Anonymous Women.” The series became a published book by Daylight Books in 2016. This is the latest of her five photographic books. Carroll’s work has also been published worldwide by organizations like the Huffington Post, Dallas Morning News and the British Journal of Photography. In 2003, the Illinois Arts Council awarded her the Artist Fellowship Grant for her work.

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(Biography provided by PDNB Gallery)

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Artist: Patty Carroll
Cutting the Cord
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The subject is the conflation of women and the home. In the previous “Anonymous Women: Draped” photographic series, a lone woman is hidden in a vignette within the drapery, where she performs domestic trickery. The photographs are vignettes of women hidden behind drapes containing one figure and drapery, with an occasional prop or piece of furniture. In this series, “Reconstructed,” the woman becomes part of her domestic trappings and activities. I am creating narrative, full-size, still-life images comprised of many objects. “Reconstructed Series” is a commentary on our obsession with collecting, accumulating designing, and decorating, inviting hilarity and pathos about our relationship with “things.” They are installations made in the studio for the camera that play with color, space, and scale, and use household objects as subject matter. We are making a life-size box in the studio as a substitute for the home. A mannequin substitutes for the woman, who is camouflaged among her domestic objects in the space. The final outcome is a photograph and/or a short video. Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago provided the basis of all of my work, and I continually seek to come to terms with it. I grew up when suburban life was idealized; the home was a place of perfection and harmony, free from the harsh realities of the city, without crime, or messy interiors, where everyone’s drapes and sofa matched, where people were normal, without dark little secrets. It was at a time when the “woman’s place...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

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Archival Pigment

Bird in Hand by Patty Carroll, 2023, Archival Pigment Print
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Bird in Hand by Patty Carroll presents a chaotic scene. A woman sits in a neutral toned room, surrounded by colorful birds. Botanical patterned curtains...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

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Archival Pigment

Leafing Home by Patty Carroll, 2023, Archival Pigment Print
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Leafing Home by Patty Carroll presents a chaotic botanical scene. A woman sits on top of suitcases covered in tropical leaves. She wears leaf printed clothing, and is surrounded by palm, monstera, and banana leaves. This theme is reflected in her environment, with tropical printed curtains...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

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Archival Pigment

Cooking the Goose by Patty Carroll, 2017, Archival Pigment Print, Photography
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Cooking the Goose by Patty Carroll presents a chaotic scene. A woman is stuck in an oven, her arms reaching out from the burners and legs kicking out...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

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Archival Pigment

Flower Child by Patty Carroll, 2022, Archival Pigment Print, Photography
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Flower Child by Patty Carroll presents vibrantly chaotic scene. A woman leans back in her couch, covered with yellow and orange flowers. Her floral patterned dress matches the color ...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

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Archival Pigment

Puzzled by Patty Carroll, 2022, Archival Pigment Print, Photography
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Puzzled by Patty Carroll presents a vibrantly colored chaotic room. A woman stands hunched over a table overflowing with puzzle pieces. Stacks of puzzle boxes surround the room, wit...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

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Archival Pigment

Rest of Her Life by Patty Carroll, 2022, Archival Pigment Print, Photography
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Rest of Her Life by Patty Carroll presents a luxurious gold and black room with gold decor. A woman lie backwards on the bed with her body twisted in a seemingly unnatural way. Calla...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

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Archival Pigment

Sour Grapes by Patty Carroll, 2023, Archival Pigment Print, Photography
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Sour Grapes by Patty Carroll presents a chaotic scene, a room filled by grapes, vines and wine bottles. A woman lies back in her chair, covered in the grapes and vines overtaking the...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

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Archival Pigment

Gone Postal by Patty Carroll, 2023, Archival Pigment Print, Photography
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Gone Postal by Patty Carroll presents a chaotic scene, a room filled with orange, yellow and green luggage and scattered with postcards seeming to fall from above. A woman lies amids...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

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Archival Pigment

Golden Years
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Atomic Kitchen by Patty Carroll, 2023, Archival Pigment Print, Photography
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Atomic Kitchen by Patty Carroll presents a chaotic scene, a teal and aqua decorated kitchen with green plants and produce spilling out of the fridge. A ...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

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Archival Pigment

Seeing Red
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Reading Green
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Cutting the Cord by Patty Carroll, 2023, Archival Pigment Print, Photography
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Cutting the Cord by Patty Carroll is a 22 x 22 inch archival pigment print, available in an edition of 20. This sheet size of this photograph is 30 x 30 inches, and the image size is...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Sunflower Girl
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category

2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Hawaiian Hangover
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The subject is the conflation of women and the home. In the previous “Anonymous Women: Draped” photographic series, a lone woman is hidden in a vignette within the drapery, where she performs domestic trickery. The photographs are vignettes of women hidden behind drapes containing one figure and drapery, with an occasional prop or piece of furniture. In this series, “Reconstructed,” the woman becomes part of her domestic trappings and activities. I am creating narrative, full-size, still-life images comprised of many objects. “Reconstructed Series” is a commentary on our obsession with collecting, accumulating designing, and decorating, inviting hilarity and pathos about our relationship with “things.” They are installations made in the studio for the camera that play with color, space, and scale, and use household objects as subject matter. We are making a life-size box in the studio as a substitute for the home. A mannequin substitutes for the woman, who is camouflaged among her domestic objects in the space. The final outcome is a photograph and/or a short video. Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago provided the basis of all of my work, and I continually seek to come to terms with it. I grew up when suburban life was idealized; the home was a place of perfection and harmony, free from the harsh realities of the city, without crime, or messy interiors, where everyone’s drapes and sofa matched, where people were normal, without dark little secrets. It was at a time when the “woman’s place...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Dull as Dishwater by Patty Carroll, 2023, Archival Pigment Print, Photography
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Dull as Dishwater by Patty Carroll is an archival pigment print, available in an edition of 20. This photograph features a mannequin in the sink, reaching for dishes in the dishwashe...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Hawaiian Hangover by Patty Carroll, 2023, Archival Pigment Print, Photography
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Hawaiian Hangover by Patty Carroll is a 22 x 22 inch archival pigment print, available in an edition of 20. This photograph features a mannequin wearing colorful Hawaiian patterned c...
Category

2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Woman On a Pedestal
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Saddled Down
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

World on Her Shoulders
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Valentine
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Fan Club
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Caged
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Veggies
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Games
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Staired Down
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

WFH
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Rogue Gallery
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Records
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

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Archival Pigment

Shell Shocked
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

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Archival Pigment

Political Party
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Plasticity
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Its a Wrap
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Pink's LA
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed and titled in black ink on print verso. Patty Carroll is an American photographer who has taught and practiced photography since the 1970’s. Her photography is characterized ...
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1990s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

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Inkjet

Fiery
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Bedridden
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Agent Orange
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Money Honey
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 3-part series of s...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Mad Mauve
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 3-part series of s...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Written Off
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Shopping
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Home On the Range
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Meaty
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Lollipopped
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Broken
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Birthday Blues
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Dee's Pit Shop
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed and titled in black ink on print verso. Patty Carroll is an American photographer who has taught and practiced photography since the 1970’s. Her photography is characterized ...
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1990s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Inkjet

Spring Hope
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 3-part series of s...
Category

2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Money Honey
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 3-part series of s...
Category

2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Byrons
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed and titled in black ink on print verso. Patty Carroll is an American photographer who has taught and practiced photography since the 1970’s. Her photography is characterized ...
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1980s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

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Inkjet

99 Cent
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed and titled in black ink on print verso. Patty Carroll is an American photographer who has taught and practiced photography since the 1970’s. Her photography is characterized ...
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1980s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Inkjet

Mad Mauve
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 3-part series of s...
Category

2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Appliances (May all your appliances be white)
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 3-part series of s...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Pink Bathroom
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 3-part series of s...
Category

2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Jake's Pup in the Ruff
By Patty Carroll
Located in Dallas, TX
Signed and titled in black ink on print verso. Patty Carroll is an American photographer who has taught and practiced photography since the 1970’s. Her photography is characterized ...
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1980s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Inkjet

Canned
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a 3-part series of s...
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2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Jello Mellow
By Patty Carroll
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise In the latest narratives, “Domestic Demise,” the woman becomes the victim of domestic disasters. Her activities, obsessions and objects are overwhel...
Category

2010s Contemporary Patty Carroll Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

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