Carol Prusa

American, b.1956

Carol Prusa 卡蘿．普魯莎(美國，b. 1956) 以 Silverpoint Drawing 銀針筆大型裝置著稱，現居住及創作於美國佛羅里達。普魯莎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，並獲全美十數間美術館與藝術中心收藏，包含紐約美術與設計博物館(Museum of Arts and Design)、佩雷斯美術館(Perez Museum of Art)、斯賓塞美術館(Spencer Museum of Art)與約翰．麥克．科勒藝術中心(John Michael Kohler Art Center)等。

普魯莎為當代極少數使用銀針筆創作的藝術家，其使用媒材銀針筆的原理為利用銀製的金屬筆尖在物體表面做刻劃金屬成分隨時間氧化使得畫出的圖樣漸漸呈現，因筆觸細膩且畫過的痕跡無法拭去，繪畫時相當著重技巧與功力，每一次創作都需要長時間的意志力以及能精準掌握圖形比例的技術才能完成。在保有傳統繪畫技法之餘，普魯莎更持續將此十四世紀文藝復興時期流傳的繪畫技術與新素材結合，如於作品內部嵌入光纖裝置或3D印刷技術，使銀針筆的效果更生動地呈現。

Carol Prusa exhibits widely in museums and curated exhibitions. Her work has been supported by fellowships including the Howard Foundation, State of Florida and South Florida Cultural Consortium. Selected for the 2015 American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational, her work was purchased for the permanent collection of the Museum of Arts and Design in NewYork City. Additional museum collections include the Perez Museum of Art, Spencer Museum of Art, Museum of Art Ft. Lauderdale, Hunter Museum of American Art, Arkansas Art Center,Telfair Art Museum and Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, among others. Prusa participated in a four-month funded Artist in Industry Residency in ceramics at the Kohler Company and most recently explored glass through a residency at Berengo Furnace, Murano, Italy. Prusa is represented by Brintz Gallery – Palm Beach, Florida, Bluerider – Taipei,Taiwan, Le Salon Vert – Geneva, Switzerland, Kostuik Gallery – Vancouver, Canada, Jenkins-Johnson – New York City and San Francisco. She is a Professor of Painting and Drawing at Florida Atlantic University.

Merging silverpoint drawing with contemporary strategies, surfaces are articulated to create liminal skins between known and unknown worlds. Prusa seeks to express her euphoria when glimpsing the strangeness and vital beauty of what is possible – to give form to thin spaces that evoke the mystery that both surrounds and binds us together.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2018	Carol Prusa - Silverpoint Drawing	Bluerider ART Gallery	Taipei, Taiwan
2018	Dark Energy	Endicott College	Boston
2017	Liminal Worlds	Messiah College	Pennsylvania
2017	Thin Spaces	several person show, Lisa Brintz Gallery	Palm Beach, Florida
2017	Voids, Walls, Clusters, Filaments	Le Salon Vert	Geneva, Switzerland
2016	Infinite Cosmos	Bluerider ART	Taipei
2016		Cornell Art Museum	Florida
2015	Unfathomable	Alan Avery Gallery	Atlanta
2015		University of North Carolina	North Carolina
2015	Overflow	Kostuik Gallery	Vancouver
2014-2015	Silver Universe	Bluerider ART	Taipei
2014	Entanglement	Sarasota Art Center	Florida
2014	Fearful Symmetry	Zadok Gallery	Miami
2013	Liminal Worlds	York College	Pennsylvania
2013	Emergent Worlds	University of Wyoming Art Museum	Wyoming
2012	Emergent Worlds	Urban Institute of Contemporary Art	Michigan
2012	Optic Nerve	Kohler Art Center	Wisconsin
2012	Non-equilibrium	University of Arkansas	Arkansas
2010	Cosmic Fabric	EO Art Lab	Connecticut
2009	Successive Approximations	University of Maine Museum of Art	Bangor
2009	Silver Linings	Polk Museum of Art	Lakeland
2008	Spooky Action	Finestra Artspace	Michigan Ave- Chicago
2007	Coherent Structures	Museum of Contemporary Art	Florida

Recent Curated, Exhibitions

2018	Selected	Muster-Meier Gallery	Bern
2018	Accrochage: Group Exhibition	Le Salon Vert	Geneva
2018	Silver Lining	Lauren Rogers Museum of Art	Mississippi
2017	Glasstress	Boca Raton Museum of Art	Florida
2017	Looking Back	Cornell Art Museum	Florida
2016	Numinous	Lisa Brintz Gallery	Florida
2016	All Florida Invitational	Boca Raton Museum of Art	Florida
2016	Destinesia	Stephen Romano Gallery	Brooklyn
2016	Worlds	Bascomb Museum	Western North Carolina
2016	Friends	J. Johnson Gallery	Florida
2015	Metalpoint	Morris Graves Museum
2015	Illuminations (Curated by Adriana Herrera)	Miami Biennale	Florida
2015	Invitational Exhibition	American Academy	New York City
2015	Miscellaneous	Le Salon Vert	Geneva
2015	Crossing the Lines	Garrison Art Center	Garrison
2015		Art in the Natural World and Cultured Settings	Miami
2015		Encyclopedia of Fernal Affairs	San Francisco
2014	Mixed Matrix	Tinney Contemporary	Tennessee
2014	Collectors and their Collections	Jewish Museum	Miami
2014	Endangered Visions		Manila
2014	Selected Artists	Florida International University	Florida
2014	Kohler 40th Anniversary Artist in Industry Exhibition	Kohler Art Center	Wisconsin
2014	Ossuary	Indiana University, Herron Galleries	Indiana
2013	Curator Selections	Hunter Museum of American Art	Chattanooga
2013	GRAM Selects	Grand Rapids Art Museum	Michigan
2013	Standing on the Bones	University of Tennessee, Downtown Gallery	Tennessee
2012	Empire of Things	Spencer Museum of Art	University Kansas
2012	Modern and Contemporary Art from the Telfair	Telfair Art Museum	Georgia
2012	Winter Salon	Jenkins-Johnson Gallery	San Francisco
2012	Woman to Woman	Bakehouse Art Center	Miami
2012	The Abstract Universe	Maloney Art Gallery	Morristown
2011	Summertime	Jenkins-Johnson Gallery	Georgia
2011	Seeing is Knowing: The Universe	Carleton College	Minnesota
2011	Believe it or Not	Dunedin Fine Art Center	Florida
2010	Between Here and There: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection	Miami Art Museum	Miami
2010	Metaphysical Materiality	Georgia State University	Atlanta
2010	Luminous Lines (Curated by Margaret Mathews-Berenson)	Scripts College	California

Public Collection

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

Recent Selected Honors

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, New York City, (received purchase award for museum collection)
2015	Vermont Studio Program, Invited Visiting Artist/Lecturer
2014	State of Florida Artist Fellowship
2014	Southeastern College Art Conference Artist Fellowship
2013	Art OMI Internation Artist Residency, NY
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 ($25,000)