Carol Salmanson Art

Carol Salmanson is a Brooklyn-based light artist working with LEDs & reflective materials to create installations, light sculptures, wall pieces and public art. She received a B.S. in biological psychology from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. She attended the Arts Students League, the School of Visual Arts as a Public Art Resident and the National Academy of Fine Arts as an Abbey Mural Workshop Fellow. Public art projects include Water Bubbles, an installation in twenty windows of the abandoned landmark The White Tower in Yekaterinburg in Russia. Other window installations include the venues Station Independent Projects, Time Equities’ Art-in-Buildings program, OK Harris Works of Art, 254 Park Avenue South and Mixed Greens Gallery, all in New York. Her outdoor sculptures include Tri-Quadular Cone in Summit and Lot’s Ex-Wife in Brooklyn. She will also have an installation, Crown Colony, in the window at 266 W. 37th Street. Her solo and two-person exhibition venues include SL Galler, Slag Contemporary, Station Independent Projects, Brian Morris Gallery, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Storefront Bushwick in Brooklyn and others. Her group exhibitions include “Space Invaders”, curated by Karin Bravin at Lehman College in Bronx, “Illuminators” at OK Harris, Dumbo Arts Festival in Brooklyn and “Resplendency” at the East/West Project in Berlin. Her work will also be featured at Odetta Gallery in Brooklyn in the four-person show “Mesmerized”. Salmanson also curated “The Language of Painting” at Lesley Heller Workspace, and co-curated “Tonal Shifts” at Station Independent Projects. Salmanson’s work has been written about by Graziella Melani Graci in Il Giorno dell’Arte and Il Manifesto in Italy, James Panero in the New Criterion, Two Coats of Paint blog, Edward Rubin in NY Arts Magazine, Jill Conner in The Brooklyn Rail and Leah Oates in NY Arts Magazine, among others. Her work was featured in the Russian television outlets ETB and GTRK, a James Kalm video which is now part of the youtube channel “Rough Cuts” and a studio visit by Brian Bernhard on CUNY television. A native of Providence, Rhode Island, Salmanson lives and works in Brooklyn.