by Michael Carroll | Jun 28, 2017 | Library, Hung Liu
hungLiuAmericanDreamJuly2017-new Turner Carroll Gallery Hung Liu American Dream Exhibition features Hung Liu’s most recent paintings. These paintings are based on the Dust-Bowl era photography of Dorothea Lange and other FSA photographers. Hung Liu is... Read More
by Michael Carroll | Feb 28, 2017 | Library, Georges Mazilu, Blog, Art as a Universal Language
Georges Mazilu, La femme jardin Georges Mazilu is one of the first artists we represented at Turner Carroll in the early 1990s, after being introduced to his paintings by fellow Romanian artist Traian Alexandru Filip. Before escaping Romania during the reign of harsh... Read More
by TC-Gallery-Admn | Nov 7, 2016 | Library, Blog, Art as a Universal Language
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in her “We Should All Be Feminists” TED Talk, asserts that every human being has the responsibility to call him- or herself a feminist. She points out that when men or women do not embrace feminism, they are literally denying... Read More
by Tonya Turner Carroll | Jun 23, 2016 | Library, Blog, Art as a Universal Language
ROY G BIV ROY G BIV Before there was a written language, color was the universal language of mankind. Prehistoric humans used color to describe every aspect of their lives. Red= blood; orange= fire; yellow=sun; green=natural vegetation/food source; blue=air;... Read More
by Tonya Turner Carroll | Mar 10, 2016 | Library, Blog, Art as a Universal Language
Scott Greene, “FUBAR”, 2007 Antonello da Messina, “Crucifixion”, 1475 National Gallery, London There is the moral of all human tales; ‘Tis but the same rehearsal of the past. First freedom and then Glory–when that fails, Wealth, vice,... Read More
by Tonya Turner Carroll | Dec 20, 2015 | Library, Blog, Art as a Universal Language
In Art as a Universal Language, Parts 1 and 2, I address some of the universal visual symbolism artists have used since the beginning of human civilization. Certain symbols have become “visual code,” allowing people from vastly different cultures and... Read More
