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(3.25 - 101 votes)About Carolyn:
Carolyn Salas in a native of California, who currently lives and works in Brooklyn. Her work consists of sculptures and installations influenced by day-to-day experiences, relationships, and the increasingly charged sociopolitical climate we reside in. Salas’ choice of materials is driven by concept, and by this method she works with a wide array of materials including, found objects, and craft oriented assemblages of felt and fabric. She holds an MFA from Hunter College, NY and a BFA from the College of Santa Fe, NM. She has completed solo exhibitions in New York at Priska Juschka Fine Art, as well as collaborative exhibitions with Adam Parker Smith, at Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Gallerie Nordine Zidoun in Luxembourg, Silly Thing Gallery in Hong Kong and has an upcoming show at Urbis, City Center in Manchester, UK.
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This might be the only time you'll ever want to put carpet padding on top of your carpet. The beautiful rug was constructed by artist Carolyn Salas. L...
Oriental Rug Made Of Carpet Foam
This might be the only time you'll ever want to put carpet padding on top of your carpet. The beautiful rug was constructed by artist Carolyn Salas. L...
Intricate Rug Created From Foam Carpet Padding
Beautiful, handmade, and very tongue-in-cheek. Designed by Carolyn Salas, there aren't too many details at This Is Love Forever, but enough to wet yo...
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Two Openings At Artspace On Thursday, One At 4 Pm, One At 6 Pm
Artspace 50 Orange St, New Haven, (203) 772-2709 City-Wide Open Studios Index II July 30—Aug. 29, 2009 Opening reception: Thurs., July 30, 6—8 pm ...
My sister Carolyn never ceases to amaze me. She takes mundane objects and creates beautiful and thoughtful art. Her work is beyond recyling or re-use but rather creating something brand new and unimaginable from something unexpected. She is highly skilled and continues to find a new craft!
Comment by desiree salas — March 23, 2009
What lies on the other side? A deer with hundreds of hooves.
Comment by Big Red — March 23, 2009
that is not ifluenced by day to day life
Comment by Anonymous — March 23, 2009
i like this work, it is very different than what i usually see on artist-a-day. i would like to walk on the rug to see what it feels like.
Comment by somepalegirl — March 23, 2009
Well done, Carolyn Salas. This art is significant, “quiet,” almost hopeful in its beautiful lines and familiar patterns, were it not for the head only of the deer barely entering the room, lifelike, his impossibly large thorny, greedy rack; and the to-be-under-feet rug for soft walking, but too pretty to walk on. The hope goes away, then. Well, not really. The hope is in the artist herself, taking time to show these … and in the gallery rooms.
I like that deer and bucks, beautiful as they are, take the bullets in their innately graceful bodies, and that afterward, their meat is good, very good to eat. Oh my–I’m just seeing how Oriental rugs are frequently under dining room tables! Superb pairing of art imagery from Salas … was the pairing on purpose?
Thank you for choosing these.
Comment by Nancy Bopp — March 23, 2009
lol at santos.
deer meat is edible and a great source of many nutrients vital for human survival. after a human being chooses life and, thus, the need for food, the deer’s antlers become a waste product. this artist is helping nature by utilizing that waste product in the form of art.
Comment by serdfjbkj — March 23, 2009
How is a deer with goofy, giant antlers an example of being “influenced by day-to-day experiences, relationships, and the increasingly charged sociopolitical climate we reside in.”?
Seems like she was just trying to be funny.
Comment by Dave — March 23, 2009
Absolutely wonderful! Great mind and must be such fun to be in it….
Comment by Barbara Gordon — March 23, 2009
The work looks nice but it would be a shame if the deer and antlers were real because these things are not found, but taken through the violent act of murder.
Comment by santos — March 23, 2009
“influenced by day-to-day experiences, relationships, and the increasingly charged sociopolitical climate we reside in” …..ie: Carolyn is influenced by being alive.Profound.
Comment by jest — March 23, 2009