Patty Carroll: Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise

PATTY CARROLL ANONYMOUS WOMEN: DOMESTIC DEMISE

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Patty Carroll, Blue, 2018

PATTY CARROLL ANONYMOUS WOMEN: DOMESTIC DEMISE

Patty Carroll Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise November 20, 2021 - February 12, 2022 PDNB Gallery, Dallas, TX

PATTY CARROLL b. 1946, American Patty Carroll is an American photographer who has taught and practiced photography since the 1970’s. Her photography is 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. She earned a BFA 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. Her 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. Her 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.

Panther, 2020

Cooking the Goose, 2017

Mad Mauve, 2018

Newsie, 2018

Rogue Gallery, 2021

Cowgirl, 2020

Pie Eyed, 2019

Jello Mellow, 2021

Fan Club, 2021

Pride Home, 2021

Staired Down, 2020

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Patty Carroll: Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise

Published on Jan 14, 2022

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In recent years, Patty Carroll (b. 1946, Chicago, Illinois) has explored the traditional and contemporary “housewife” role, by creating scenes of exaggerated chaos that often consumes the subject, which is a woman. Pots and pans, shoes and flowers, excessively colorful drapery, cakes and pies, 1950’s furniture and decorative objects overwhelm the female subject in the scene. The series is appropriately titled, Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise. Patty states, “She is both a victim of her obsessions, activities and circumstances as well as the invisible creator of such; both satisfying and problematic, pathetic and humorous.” The images are mostly humorous, but sometimes terrifying. Overall, we reflect on the past and current defined roles of the Suburban woman.