Carol Prusa
(USA, b. 1956)

德雷克大學(Drake University)藝術碩士,主修繪畫。現居住、創作、教授於美國佛羅里達州,以 Silverpoint 銀針筆創作大型裝置著稱。經由銀針筆的精密與洗煉灰階獨樹一格的創作方式,探討宇宙生命的起源。作品曾受邀參與備受國際尊崇的美國藝術暨文學學會 (American Academy of Arts and Letters) 邀請展,創作並收錄於多本銀針筆歷史書冊,歐美展出經歷豐富。獲全美十數間美術館永久收藏,包括紐約美術與設計博物館(Museum of Arts and Design)、邁阿密佩雷斯美術館(Perez Museum of Art)、斯賓塞美術館、與科勒藝術中心…等等,Carol Prusa 卡蘿.普魯莎於2017年獲得了SECAC藝術成就獎,並在2019年於美國佛羅里達博卡拉頓藝術博物館(Boca Raton Museum of Art)舉辦大型個展。

‘Complex Uncertainties: Artists in Postwar America’ Telfair Museum, 2020 2005年245x120cm銀針筆木板畫作 ’Silent Pregnancy‘ ,入選Telfair Museum ‘1945至今美國戰後代表藝術家 Complex Uncertainties: Artists in Postwar America’ 全美巡迴展。

Carol Prusa “Silver Linings” Solo Exhibition, Polk Museum of Art, Florida

Selected Publication of Carol Prusa, 2007-2020

銀針筆(Silverpoint)興盛於文藝復興時期,這個古老的技法自古以來就被藝術家、文牘或工匠使用,因它描繪細膩的特性而受達文西(Leonardo da Vinci)、拉斐爾(Raffaello Santi)等大師所喜愛。文藝復興時期琴尼尼(Cennino Cennini)所編著的繪畫技術論著《藝術之書》(Il Libro dell’Arte)中也提及,中世紀的畫室學徒必須精通銀針筆以後,才能著手學習油畫,也因無法修改的特性,可見此技法畫工之高超。

Heads of the Virgin and Child, 1508-10 c., Raffaello Santi da Urbino, called Raphael, Silverpoint on pink prepared paper, 14.3 x 11.1 cm, British Museum, London.

受到文藝復興圓頂教堂繪畫的啟發,Carol Prusa 卡蘿.普魯莎開始埋首銀針筆繪畫研究,以機械紋理低調洗練的灰階,展現自成一格的創作風格,根據創作複雜程度與規模,一件作品可能需耗費數千小時才得以完成。早期以半弧形體,後逐漸展現360度球體功力,近期轉向平面畫作以及大型裝置,跳脫以往球體裝置,開創新平面風格,卻仍為觀者營造無限的視覺感。無盡的想像其實皆經精密的計算及佈局,每件作品都象徵已知與未知的交觸面,平衡與反覆的圖形陳述宇宙運轉的邏輯。美國知名攝影師Bruce Weber布魯斯.韋伯曾於展覽刊物中稱許藝術家Carol Prusa卡蘿.普魯莎為「當今銀針筆界最具創新力的藝術家之一」,融合了對宇宙、自然科學,以及浩瀚宇宙間神秘「未知」的著迷,Carol Prusa卡蘿.普魯莎將古老的銀針筆技法,結合雕刻樹脂、玻璃纖維、金屬箔甚至是LED燈等當代媒材,使我們得以去想像宇宙初始的渾沌、融合以及萬物間的神秘力量。

Carol Prusa “Scale the Wall” Exhibition, Bluerider ART, 2019

Carol Prusa “Infinite Cosmos”, Bluerider ART, 2016

「未知」雖然讓人卻步,卻也同時使人期待,Prusa普魯莎的銀針筆繪畫詮釋宇宙演化的核心混沌相互作用,發掘其生命之美,而宇宙間無形的力量,也因此得以在我們眼前成為現實。如同藝術評論家Margherita Dessanay 所言:「Carol Prusa 使用藝術來研究『宇宙的無限奇蹟』」,藉由作品反饋觀者心靈世界,使觀者在驚嘆藝術家創作之外,得由不同的角度窺視宇宙萬物間的聯繫與生命之美,也在她的藝術作品中為宇宙力量創造了新的視野。

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022 Porous Boundaires, the Schmidt Gallery,Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
2021 Night Vision, Anne Norton Sculpture Garden and Museum, Palm Beach, USA
2020 Spooky Action, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 DarkLight, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
2018 Carol Prusa – Silverpoint Drawing, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Dark Energy, Endicott College, Massachusetts, USA
2017 Liminal Worlds, Messiah College, Pennsylvania, USA
2017 Voids, Walls, Clusters, Filaments, Le Salon Vert, Geneva, Switzerland
2017 Thin Spaces, Art Center Sarasota, Florida, USA
2016 Infinite Cosmos, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 Cornell Art Museum, Florida, USA
2015 Overflow, Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2015 University of North Carolina, North Carolina, USA
2015 Unfathomable, Alan Avery Gallery, Georgia, USA
2014-2015 Silver Universe, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Entanglement, Sarasota Art Center, Florida, USA
2014 Fearful Symmetry, Florida Atlantic University, Zadok Gallery, Miami, USA
2013 Emergent Worlds, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Wyoming, USA
2013 Liminal Worlds, York College, Pennsylvania, USA
2012 Emergent Worlds, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Michigan, USA
2012 Optic Nerve, Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin, USA
2012 Non-equilibrium, University of Arkansas, Arkansas, USA
2010 Cosmic Fabric, EO Art Lab, Connecticut, USA
2009 Successive Approximations, University of Maine Museum of Art, Maine, USA
2009 Silver Linings, Polk Museum of Art, Florida, USA
2008 Spooky Action, Finestra Artspace, Chicago, USA
2007 Coherent Structures, Museum of Contemporary Art, Florida, USA

Selected Curated Exhibitions

2021 Tenacity, 5-person exhibition, Chautauqua Institution, New York
2020 Ossuary, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD), Milwaukee, WI
2020 Miami Artists to Watch, Mitte Projects, Wynwood Arts 29, Miami, FL
2019 Portrait: Kentler in 58 Works, Kentler International Drawing Space, New York (curated by David Houston)
2019 Scale the Wall, presented large-scale projection installation “Folded Worlds” in a three person Show at the Sonshan Creative and Cultural park, Taipei, Taiway –
sponsored by Bluerider Art
2019 Kalliope, Florida State College at Jacksonville, Florida
2018 The Future of Craft Part I, Museum of Arts and Design, Columbus Circle, NYC
2018 FLAT???, Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, NYC
2018 Feminine, Alan Avery Art, Atlanta, Georgia
2018 Sacred, Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa
2018 Silver Lining, Columbus State University, Georgia
2018 Selected, Muster-Meier Gallery, Bern, Switzerland
2018 Accrochage: Group Exhibition, Le Salon Vert, Geneva, Switzerland
2018 Silver Lining; Contemporary Works in Silverpoint, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Mississippi, USA
2017 Glasstress, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
2017 Looking Back, Cornell Art Museum, Florida, USA
2016 Numinous, Lisa Brintz Gallery, Florida, USA
2016 All Florida Invitational, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
2016 Destinesia, Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2016 Worlds, Bascomb Museum, Western North Carolina, USA
2016 Friends, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
2015 Metalpoint, Morris Graves Museum, USA
2015 Illuminations (Curated by Adriana Herrera), Miami Biennale, Miami, Florida, USA
2015 Invitational Exhibition, American Academy, New York, USA
2015 Miscellaneous, Le Salon Vert, Geneva, Switzerland
2015 Crossing the Lines, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, New York, USA
2015 Art in the Natural World and Cultured Settings (Curated by Bernice Steinbaum), Miami, USA
2015 Encyclopedia of Fernal Affairs, originating in San Francisco and traveling to Asia, Vargas Contemporary Mus, Manila, Philippines
2014 Mixed Matrix, Tinney Contemporary, Tennessee, USA
2014 Collectors and their Collections, Jewish Museum, Miami, USA
2014 Endangered Visions, Manila, Philippines
2014 Kohler 40th Anniversary Artist in Industry Exhibition, Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin, USA
2014 Selected Artists, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Florida, USA
2014 Ossuary, Indiana University, Herron Galleries, Indiana, USA
2013 Curator Selections, Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee, USA
2013 GRAM Selects, Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Michigan, USA
2013 Standing on the Bones, University of Tennessee, Downtown Gallery, Tennessee, USA
2012 Empire of Things, University Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA
2012 Modern and Contemporary Art from the Telfair, Telfair Art Museum, Jepson Center’s Steward Gallery, Georgia, USA
2012 Winter Salon, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2012 Woman to Woman, Bakehouse Art Center, Miami, USA
2012 The Abstract Universe, Maloney Art Gallery, New Jersey, USA
2011 Summertime, Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2011 Seeing is Knowing: The Universe, Carleton College, Minnesota, USA
2011 Believe it or Not, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Florida, USA
2010 Between Here and There: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection (Curated by Peter Boswell, Senior Curator), Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA
2010 Metaphysical Materiality, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA
2010 Luminous Lines (Curated by Margaret Mathews-Berenson), Scripts College, California, USA

Public Collections

Arkansas Arts Center, Arkansas, USA
Appalachian State University, Catherine Smith Gallery, North Carolina, USA
Bienes Center for the Literary Art, Broward County Library, Florida, USA
Central Missouri State University, President’s Gallery, Missouri, USA
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri, USA
Drake University, Harmon Fine Arts Center, Iowa, USA
Emaar Hospitality Group, Dubai, UAE
Evansville Museum of Art and Science, Indiana, USA
Florida Atlantic University, Florida, USA
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee, USA
Iowa State University, College of Family and Consumer Sciences, Iowa, USA
Iowa State University, Margaret Sloss Women’s Center, Iowa, USA
Iowa State University, Memorial Union, Iowa, USA
Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin, USA
Kohler Company, Wisconsin, USA
Messiah College, Pennsylvania, USA
Miami Art Museum, Florida, USA
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, USA
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Florida, USA
Polk Museum of Art, Florida, USA
Telfair Museum, Savannah, Georgia, USA
University of Florida – Public Art, Wellness Center, Florida, USA
University of Florida – Public Art, NIMET Nanotechnology, USA
University of Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA
University of Oregon Special Collections, University Library, Oregon, USA
University of Wyoming Museum of Art, Wyoming, USA
U.S. Embassy, Managua, Nicaragua
Wartburg College, Iowa, USA

Selected Honors

2020 Selected for artist book to be made through IS Projects, funded by the Knight Foundation
2020 Selected for Scientific Delirium Madness; a month-long residency, public and academic forums, published blogs and articles in LEONARDO/ISAST’s journal
published by MIT Press. This unique residency is a collaborative initiative of Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (ISAST) and
Djerassi Resident Artists Program (6 artists and 6 scientists)
2019 Edwards Distinguished Professor in the Arts, Visiting Artist, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia
2019 Vermont Studio Program, Invited Visiting Artist (Dec. 2019)
2018 Nomination for USA Artist Fellowship
2017 Awarded SECAC Artistic Achievement Award at 2017 national conference, Columbus, Ohio, USA
2017 Nomination for USA Artist Fellowship
2016 Artist residency in glass at Berengo Foundation, Murano, Italy
2015 Nominated and selected for American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational (Received purchase award for museum collection), New York, USA
2015 Vermont Studio Program, Invited Visiting Artist/Lecturer
2014 State of Florida Artist Fellowship
2014 Southeastern College Art Conference Artist Fellowship
2013 Art OMI International Artist Residency, New York, USA
2013 Vermont Studio Program, Visiting Artist
2012 Ubertalli Award for Outstanding Artist, Palm Beach County
2012 Kohler Artist in Industry residency
2011 Scholar of the Year at the Professor rank, Florida Atlantic University
2008 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists
2008 State of Florida Artist Fellowship
2007 Howard Foundation Fellowship, Brown University, National project award

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