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Art as a Universal Language: Matt King’s Becoming Light
Aug 14, 2023
Matt King was an artist of singular vision. Best known as a founding force in the iconic and groundbreaking Meow Wolf enterprises, his creative genius allowed him to envision never before seen artistic experiences. Matt King: Becoming Light is the first solo exhibition by King and a unique opportunity to understand this beloved artist. [CONTAINER] has worked closely with his family and loved ones, and this exhibition featuring 40 works created over more than 20 years is curated by Han Santana-Sayles, King’s partner and Meow Wolf’s Director of Artist Collaboration.
Art as a Universal Language: Raphaelle Goethals’ Transcendent Abstraction
Aug 13, 2023
Last week, Turner Carroll Gallery hosted a wonderful evening with Raphaelle Goethals and Tonya Turner Carroll in dialog about the artist’s practice and aesthetic development over the past decades.
Art as a Universal Language: Lien Truong and the Materiality of History
Aug 11, 2023
Turner Carroll Gallery is proud to mount a solo exhibition of new work by Lien Truong. In her practice, aesthetic delights confront historical realities as Truong takes figure, landscape, and technique into the realm of Asian Futurism.
Art as a Universal Language: Mokha Laget, One of the Only Women in Geometric Abstraction
Aug 8, 2023
CONTAINER is thrilled to announce the opening of Mokha Laget: Perceptualism. The exhibition will kick off with a public opening on March 31 from 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m., and will run through May 15, 2023. The Laget exhibition is coming to CONTAINER fresh from its success at Washington, DC’s American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, and featured more than 40 works by Laget and was curated by Kristen Hileman. The exhibition ran earlier this year to great acclaim, including a glowing review in Art and Antiques.
Art as a Universal Language: Hung Liu’s Revolutionary Feminism
Jul 27, 2023
Hung Liu's impact on contemporary art is immense. Since the Chinese government's censorship of her 2019 Beijing exhibition, her Smithsonian retrospective in 2021, and her passing that same year, the international art world is anticipating the next deep dive into Liu's work. Turner Carroll Gallery is proud to present Hung Liu: Memory and Revolution, an exhibition offering a glimpse into Liu's deep sense of humanism and her revolutionary feminism. The exhibition features selections from the gallery’s own collection of her most significant works, as well as iconic works curated from private collections.
Art as a Universal Language: Nadya Tolokonnikova/Pussy Riot’s Political Art
Jul 27, 2023
Yesterday Tonya Turner Carroll, co-founder of [CONTAINER] moderated a conversation between Judy Chicago and Nadya Tolokonnikova at Chicago's Through the Flower Art Space in Belen, New Mexico. One of the overarching topics of the conversation was the complacency of the American public as our gender equality rights continue to be stripped away. Tolokonnikova and her Pussy Riot collective stood up so bravely to Russian tyranny, with Tolokonnikova being arrested more than 70 times, spending two years in prison, and ultimately living a life in exile.
Art as a Universal Language, Part 14: Mothers of a Better World
Aug 17, 2020
Judy Chicago Curates International Exhibition with Turner Carroll titled Solstice: Create Art For Earth! She inspires more than 7000 artists to #CreateArtForEarth.
Art as a Universal Language, Part 13: #CreateArtForEarth
Jun 14, 2020
Judy Chicago Curates International Exhibition with Turner Carroll titled Solstice: Create Art For Earth! She inspires more than 7000 artists to #CreateArtForEarth.
Art as a Universal Language, Part 12: Visual Thinking
May 13, 2020
Pablo Picasso – Guernica Painting is a blind man’s profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.-Pablo Picasso Art is important because it’s part of the story we tell about ourselves; it’s our culture....
Art as a Universal Language, Part 11: How Art Transforms Humanity
Apr 14, 2020
Raphaelle Goethals – Currents I Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential…creativity is the power to act.-Ai Weiwei Some of the greatest accomplishments of humanity have emerged from bleak times. The European...
Art as a Universal Language, Part 10: Artists’ Point of View
Apr 9, 2020
Walter Robinson, Souvenir, 1996, polychromed wood, 68 x 18 x 4″ Although isolation is the right response in our current environment, social distancing can have an effect on our mental health. We are wired for human connection, which raises some questions: What...
Art as a Universal Language, Part 9: Art Can Make You Happy
Mar 26, 2020
Judy Chicago, Resolutions, 2000, counted cross-stitch and embroidery on cotton, 37 x 25.5″ As we find refuge in our homes, we realize “home” means much more than physical shelter—it is our place of peace, comfort, and aesthetic sanctuary. We find joy in people...
Art as a Universal Language, Part 8: Deconstructing the paintings of Romanian Artist Georges Mazilu
Feb 28, 2017
Georges Mazilu, La femme jardin Georges Mazilu is one of the first artists we represented at Turner Carroll in the early 1990s, after being introduced to his paintings by fellow Romanian artist Traian Alexandru Filip. Before escaping Romania during the reign of harsh...
Art as a Universal Language, Part 7: Why We Should All Be Feminists (Hung Liu, Jamie Brunson, Nina Tichava)
Nov 7, 2016
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in her “We Should All Be Feminists” TED Talk, asserts that every human being has the responsibility to call him- or herself a feminist. She points out that when men or women do not embrace feminism, they are literally denying...
Art as a Universal Language, Part 6: Art as Social Change
Sep 23, 2016
Contemporary Syrian War Poster shows the reality of children’s existence in Syria today Kara Walker’s “Testimony” reveals the injustice in African American history Image by Australian street artist “Meek”, stencil art of his “Begging for...
Art as a Universal Language, Part 5: Color as Communication
Jun 23, 2016
ROY G BIV ROY G BIV Before there was a written language, color was the universal language of mankind. Prehistoric humans used color to describe every aspect of their lives. Red= blood; orange= fire;
Art as a Universal Language, Part 4: Canary in a Coal Mine
Mar 10, 2016
Scott Greene, “FUBAR”, 2007 Antonello da Messina, “Crucifixion”, 1475 National Gallery, London There is the moral of all human tales; ‘Tis but the same rehearsal of the past. First freedom and then Glory–when that fails, Wealth, vice,...
Art as a Universal Language, Part 3: How Art Unites World Religions
Dec 20, 2015
In Art as a Universal Language, Parts 1 and 2, I address some of the universal visual symbolism artists have used since the beginning of human civilization. Certain symbols have become “visual code,” allowing people from vastly different cultures and...