JoAnne Carson | |
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Born | 1953 New York, New York, United States |
Education | University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago |
Known for | Painting, sculpture, assemblage |
Spouse | Jim Butler |
Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy in Rome, National Endowment for the Arts |
Website | JoAnne Carson |
JoAnne Carson (born 1953) is an American artist who is known for over-the-top, hybrid works in painting, sculpture and assemblage that freely mix fantasy, illusion and narrative, high and low cultural allusions, and seriocomic intent.[1][2][3] She first gained widespread attention in the 1980s for what ARTnews critic Dan Cameron described as "extraordinary painted constructions—kaleidoscopic assemblages chock full of trompe-l’oeil painting, art-history quips, found objects and nostalgic echoes of early modernism."[4][5][6] New York Times critic Roberta Smith wrote that Carson's subsequent work progressed methodically into three dimensions, culminating in freestanding botanical sculpture that exuded "giddy beauty" and "unapologetic decorativeness";[2] her later imaginary landscapes have been described as whimsical spectacles of "Disneyesque horror."[7][8] Carson has been recognized with a Guggenheim Fellowship, awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Academy in Rome and National Endowment for the Arts, and Yaddo artist residencies.[1] Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Albright-Knox Gallery, New Orleans Museum of Art, and Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; it belongs to the public art collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, MCA Chicago, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, among others.[9][10][11][1]