Artist

Mary Carroll

born Sioux City, IA 1958
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Courtesy Mary Carroll.
Born
Sioux City, Iowa, United States
Active in
  • Sarasota, Florida, United States
  • Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Biography

Mary Carroll creates hand-built ceramic pieces encrusted with colorfully molded flowers, fruits, and vegetables. Carroll was inspired by the baroque and rococo ceramic pieces that she saw in Europe and began making her contemporary versions. Her work addresses "feminine" qualities of strength, fragility, sensuality, and beauty. To achieve the textures and relief images in her pieces, the artist makes molds from natural objects such as cabbage leaves, corn, and pumpkins, and coats her work with bright glazes.

Works by this artist (626 items)

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Werner Drewes, Central Density, 1973, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1975.116
Central Density
Artist
Date1973
oil on canvas
On view
Werner Drewes, Pointed Brown and Floating Circles, 1933, oil, pen and ink, and pencil on wood panel, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Patricia and Phillip Frost, 1986.92.17
Pointed Brown and Floating Circles
Artist
Date1933
oil, pen and ink, and pencil on wood panel
On view
Werner Drewes, Suspended Forms, woodcut, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1977.21.11
Suspended Forms
Artist
woodcut
Not on view
Werner Drewes, Summer Bouquet (no. 242), color woodcut, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1968.9.81
Summer Bouquet (no. 242)
Artist
color woodcut
Not on view