GALERIE XII is pleased to welcome American woman photographer, Patty Carroll’s first solo show in Los Angeles.
Without identities, these “Anonymous Women” are visual metaphors. Patty Carroll addresses women and their complicated relationships with domesticity. By camouflaging the figure in drapery and/or domestic objects, Carroll creates a dark and humorous game of hide-and-seek between her viewers and the Anonymous Woman.
She has called these pictures "un portraits" because they are not real portraits. While people have contended that her photographs of women in various phases of anonymity could be interpreted as everything from commentaries on women’s fight for identity to digs at commercialism, Carroll is happy for viewers to read what they want into her work.
About Patty Carroll
Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. After teaching photography for many years, she delights viewers with her playful critique of home and excess in “Anonymous Women” a 4-part series of studio installations made for the camera, addressing women and their complicated relationships with domesticity. The photographs are exhibited in large scale and previous iterations were published as a monograph, Anonymous Women, in 2017 with Daylight Books. The recent chapter of the ongoing series is a new monograph Domestic Demise, published in 2020 by Aint-Bad Books. The series has been exhibited internationally, has won multiple awards, and acknowledged as one of Photolucida’s “Top 50” in 2104 and
in 2017, and has been featured in prestigious blogs and international magazines such as the Huffington Post, the BJP in Britain, and NYT LensBlog, Washington Post Insight, Vanity Fair, Italia and many others.
G ra n ts / Pr i zes i n c l u d e A r t i st Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council, 2003, and 2020, Grand Prize winner in “Herstory” with See Me, 2019, and Grand Prize Winner of Don’t Take Pictures, 2020.
Selected one-person museum exhibits include: Museum of C o n te m p o ra r y P h oto g ra p hy, Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England, The State of Illinois Gallery and Museum, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX, White Box Museum, Beijing, China, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Chicago Cultural Center, The Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL, The Albrecht-Kemper Museum, St. Joe, MO, The Baldwin Photographic Gallery at MTSU in Murphreesboro, TN, and the Zheijhang Museum of Art, Hangzhou, China. Artist Residences include: Akiyoshidai Arts Village, Japan, Anderson Ranch, Colorado, Texas A&M University, Columbia College, Chicago, and at Studios Inc. in Kansas City, MO.
Work included in many public and private collections, including: The Art Institute of Chicago, MOMA, MOCP, MCA, The Sandor Photography Collection, The Kansas Cit y Collection, The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and the Ruttenberg Foundation among others.