Patty Carroll: Demise and Debacle

From Catherine Couturier Gallery:

“Catherine Couturier Gallery is pleased to present the latest works of gallery artist Patty Carroll in a solo exhibition, Demise and Debacle. The exhibition coincides with the release of Patty’s latest book Domestic Demise & Debacle, copublished with Catherine Couturier Gallery.

Patty Carroll has been known for her use of highly intense, saturated color photographs since the 1970’s. Her ongoing project, “Anonymous Women,” consists of a series of studio installations made for the camera, addressing 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. The photographs from this series were published as a monograph, Anonymous Women, officially released in January 2017 by Daylight Books, and in Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise published in 2020 by Aint-Bad Books. Domestic Demise & Debacle was released in 2025, published by Paper Street Co.

Patty Carroll received her BFA from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana in Graphic Design, and her Master of Science (MS) in Photography from the Institute of Design at IIT, Chicago. Since 2010, Carroll has shown at the White Box Museum in Beijing, (2011), Shanghai University Gallery (2010), the Cultural Center in Chicago (2012), Zhejiang Art Museum (2015), as well as several other University galleries and museums. Carroll received an Artist Fellowship Grant from the Illinois Arts Council in 2003 and 2020.

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