Lawrence Carroll

Lawrence Carroll 1954-2019

Lawrence Carroll, Installation, documenta IX, Kassel, Germany, 1992

‘The Australian-born, American-raised painter Lawrence Carroll—known for his expressively elegant, restrained sculptural pictures often assembled from found materials—has died. His death on Tuesday morning was announced by his Cologne gallery Karsten Greve, which has represented the artist since 1999. He was sixty-five years old.

Carroll quietly resisted trends or even a decipherable progression over the span of his forty-year career, though his muted color palette and use of household paint, stitched canvas, oil, wax, and dust to create works which existed in the space between object and art object remained throughout.’ Excerpt Artforum News

Lawrence Carroll, Table Painting, 2002.

Lawrence Carroll

Lawrence Carroll, Calendar Painting "light brown-rose", 2010. Oil, wax, house paint on canvas on wood, h: 32 x w: 19 x d: 2.5 cm.

Lawrence Carroll, Net, 2009-2010. Oil, wax, house paint and canvas on wood, studio dust, flowers, glass, h: 274 x w: 208 x d: 15 cm.

The Karsten Greve Gallery

Lawrence Carroll

 Lawrence Carroll, Untitled, 1999-2000. Oil.

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Lawrence Carroll was born in Melbourne in 1954. He moved to America with is family in 1958 where he received his education. Carroll has exhibited widely throughout Europe and America. He currently lives between Venice, Italy and the USA. He is represented in Australia by  Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney, where he held a solo exhibition in 2006.  Carroll has work in prestigious museum collections including the Guggenheim Museum New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. In 1992 he was an invited participant in documenta IX, Kassel, Germany.

There is a strong sculptural or architectural aspect to his smaller works which appear as 'painting objects'. His larger works challenge traditional notions of 'the canvas', while also taking on the momentum of decayed walls. For further information on Carroll's large scale works visit Studio Trisorio and for smaller work I recommend Ace Gallery, Beverly Hills.