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New Exhibition @ Michael Mazzeo Gallery

Eric William Carroll — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:25:20 +0000

Sorry for the lack of updates as of late–it’s not that nothing interesting has been happening, it’s the opposite actually. I moved to a new city (SF!), am working with new people, and perhaps most exciting–I’m exhibiting new work! I’ll have five original pieces from the work I produced at MacDowell this past summer in a small exhibit at Michael Mazzeo Gallery that I’m calling ‘Speed of Dark’.

Speed of Dark #333

The images shown are some of my first experiments with the subject matter and format, so I think it serves as a good introduction to the series. I’m still working on developing it into a larger body of work (and therefore a larger show) with this material, but I’m excited to be giving a preview of what’s to come. I’m also excited that I’ll be sharing the gallery with the talented Dave Jordano. Dave’s series of minimalist Midwest landscapes is the perfect complement to my dense patterns of light and shadow.

Dave Jordano, Terra-Caelum 7, from the series Prairieland

Exhibition details below:
Recent Developments: Eric William Carroll & Dave Jordano
Opening Saturday, September 11th 6-8PM
Michael Mazzeo Gallery
526 West 26th Street, Suite 209
New York, NY 10001
Exhibition runs through October 16th

I should note that this is actually a pretty rare chance to see my original blueprints in person. For those who know my working process, the blueprints generally serve as an intermediary step towards the creation of the final piece. The fact that they are so fragile and light sensitive usually prevents me from exhibiting the originals, but sometimes they’re just too beautiful not to! I hope that if you happen to be in NYC this fall you’ll get the chance to see them. I’ll leave you with a short video of what I got up to this past summer…

http://www.vimeo.com/14116776

Day 30

Eric William Carroll — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:51:03 +0000

Back from MacDowell, missing the time & space I had already. Here’s one last install shot of some new work. Will hopefully have this new work on the website soon.

New Video Work (Day 21)

Eric William Carroll — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:49:04 +0000

Hard at work here at Camp MacDowell. When I haven’t been making huge blueprints I’ve been creating some experimental projection pieces in which videos are projected onto photographs. The photographs they are projected onto are created by projecting the video onto light-sensitive paper (read: long exposure). There is a certain kind of beauty in both the redundancy of the image/video and the temporal confusion by layering ongoing moments on top of still images. Watch examples below:

http://www.vimeo.com/13462678

http://www.vimeo.com/13463130

http://www.vimeo.com/13463510

Day 13

Eric William Carroll — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:27:02 +0000

Quad folder opens like a Transformer!

Day 10

Eric William Carroll — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:13:20 +0000

“this light is like snowflakes!”

damn processor

Eric William Carroll — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:02:10 +0000

eating my prints

Studio: day 3

Eric William Carroll — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:04:30 +0000

It’s so easy to be productive here…

Trees @ Night (UV)

Eric William Carroll — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:30:37 +0000

Walked around with the strobe last night–I can’t see anything w/o it.

Temporary Studio

Eric William Carroll — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:26:35 +0000

My studio in Brooklyn was approximately 90 square feet if you counted the ‘hallway’ path that people used to get to the bathroom. It was also humid as hell, had no natural light, and cost $300/month. My studio at MacDowell is an improvement in every imaginable way, save for the less-than-convenient location of being 240 miles away from Brooklyn. I guess that’s why there’s a bed in it. Peep the 360˚ view below:

Also, I seem to have lost all concept of time up here–what is a Friday?

Colonizing MacDowell

Eric William Carroll — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:37:04 +0000

I’m up at the MacDowell colony for the month of July–stay tuned for works-in-progress and nature reports. I’ve only been up here for one day and I already feel like the luckiest guy in the world.