Patty Carroll: "Miss Adventures"

PAT T Y C A R R O L L

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PAT T Y C A R R O L L Miss Adventures

November 5, 2021 - January 22, 2022

Patty Carroll: Miss Adventures Artist Statement

In my series titled, Anonymous Women: Domestic Demise, I create tableaus for the camera featuring a lone female figure camouflaged in an abundance of domestic possessions commenting on managing a home.

The home is a metaphor for the internal lives of women; their worries, desires and interior dialogue. As we were confined to our homes during the pandemic, the meaning and overwhelming experience of being “at home” became humorous, dreadful, claustrophobic, and challenging.

I have always been interested in a line between reality and fiction, which is a difficult space for photography. This work is the fictional narrative of a single woman in her imaginary home; confined yet overwhelmed by the world both inside and outside. She is both a victim of her obsessions, activities and circumstances as well as the invisible creator of such; both satisfying and problematic, pathetic and humorous. The lone female figure represents people who feel isolated, exhausted, frustrated and generally at wit’s end during these difficult times.

The figure also symbolizes so many women, no matter what culture or background, with roots in consumer culture, where possessions provide continuity, tradition and identity.

While humor is prevalent in these narratives, the message behind them has darker implications about the role of women or homemaker in all societies.

- Patty Carroll, 2021

Purple Haze Digital photograph Available in 2 sizes: 22” x 22” 38” x 38”

Happy Hippie Digital photograph Available in 2 sizes: 22” x 22” 38” x 38”

Red Bed Digital photograph Available in 2 sizes: 22” x 22” 38” x 38”

Half and Half Digital photograph Available in 2 sizes: 22” x 22” 38” x 38”

WFH Digital photograph Available in 2 sizes: 22” x 22” 38” x 38”

Light at the end of the Tunnel Digital photograph Available in 2 sizes: 22” x 22” 38” x 38”

Red Red Wine Digital photograph Available in 2 sizes: 22” x 22” 38” x 38”

Catnap Digital photograph Available in 2 sizes: 22” x 22” 38” x 38”

Trophy Wife Digital photograph Available in 2 sizes: 22” x 22” 38” x 38”

Kissing Frogs Digital photograph Available in 2 sizes: 22” x 22” 38” x 38”

Agent Orange Digital photograph Available in 2 sizes: 22” x 22” 38” x 38”

Tripping Digital photograph Available in 2 sizes: 22” x 22” 38” x 38”

Jello Mellow Digital photograph Available in 2 sizes: 22” x 22” 38” x 38”

Green Beaned Digital photograph Available in 2 sizes: 22” x 22” 38” x 38”

Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art 2004 Baltimore Ave. Kansas City, MO 64108 816.221.2626 sherryleedy.com