Book as Solution, Book as Prompt with Eric William Carroll
Join us Wednesday, March 2nd @ 7 pm ET
Join Eric William Carroll as he walks through two of his photo book projects, Blue Line of Woods (2012) and A Light Year of Lead (2021). While the content of each project explores the artist’s curiosity about the natural world & his interest in photography’s ability to reproduce it, visually and formally the two books couldn’t be more different.
With work ranging from ephemeral large-scale photograms to dead-pan documentary & archival appropriation, Eric will explore how the book format served each project in its own way and attempt to answer how the same artist can sing in such radically different voices.
Eric William Carroll’s work on photography, science, and nature explores the differences in how we experience, represent, and organize the world. Through his photographs, installations, and performances, Carroll creates visual and emotional connections that span enormous distances in space and time. At the heart of his practice is a genuine sense of curiosity that questions traditional binary relationships.
Carroll’s work has been shown widely and has been included in exhibitions at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Aperture Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Pier 24 Photography, among others. Carroll has participated in residencies with the MacDowell Colony, Rayko Photo Center and the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, and was the winner of the 2012 Baum Award for Emerging Photographers. Born and raised in the Midwest, Carroll currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
