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
| 2020 | Night Vision | Anne Norton Sculpture Garden and Museum | Palm Beach |
| 2019 | DarkLight | Boca Raton Museum of Art | Florida |
| 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
| 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 |
| 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
| 2019 | Vermont Studio Program, Invited Visiting Artist |
| 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) |
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