WHAT WE OFFER
Museum Quality Artworks
We’ve placed important works by Philip Guston, the most significant Camille Claudel work on the international art market, Alfred Jensen, Jasper Johns, Judy Chicago, Frank Stella, Swoon, Nadya Tolokonnikova, Shepard Fairey, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Emmi Whitehorse, Virgil Ortiz, William Wiley, Christo, Claes Oldenburg, Alice Neel, Hung Liu, and other of the most influential and sought after artists in the world.
Art Historians on Staff
When you come to Turner Carroll, you’ll always find a person passionate about the history of art on site. Each member of our staff is experienced and knowledgeable about the history of art and the criteria that make an artwork timeless not only aesthetically, but as a sound investment, as well. From ancient art to cutting edge contemporary, Turner Carroll has vast expertise across the world of art.
Art Advisory Services Available by Contract
Whether you are forming a new collection, or you are a longstanding collector, we are ready to help you gain access to rare artworks. We are available to accompany you to top art fairs, research provenance on works you are considering, and create a database to track your physical and aspirational collection, and write scholarly content about your collection and the artworks in the collection. These services are available on a contractual basis, and require a fee. Please send your request to us at mc@turnercarrollgallery.com or tonya@turnercarrollgallery.com
Appraisal Services Available by Contract
For estate planning and liquidation, insurance purposes, as well as for tax deductibility of donated artworks, collectors regularly find themselves in need of appraisals. Turner Carroll can provide these services for you on a contractual basis, requiring a fee commensurate with the nature of the appraisal. Please contact mc@turnercarrollgallery.com for your appraisal needs.
Artwork Deaccessioning Available by Contract
We welcome the opportunity to resell artworks by major established artists, as well as select emerging artists. Please contact tonya@turnercarrollgallery.com with the name of the artist/s whose work you wish to resell.
We proudly represent the following contemporary artists: John Barker, Jeremy Biggers, Jamie Brunson, Natalie Christensen, FAILE, Traian A. Filip, Angela Ellsworth, Raphaëlle Goethals, Scott Greene, Clarence Heyward, Etsuko Ichikawa, Matt King, Mokha Laget, Sam Lao, David Linn, Monica Lundy, Igor Melnikov, Douglas Miles, Greg Murr, Jeanette Pasin Sloan, Virgil Ortiz, Rex Ray, Walter Robinson, Meridel Rubenstein, Rusty Scruby, Matt Shlian, Hunt Slonem, Shawn Smith, Swoon, Saba Taj, Drew Tal, Nadya Tolokonnikova, Lien Truong, Antoine Williams, Karen Yank, and Wanxin Zhang.
In addition, we have a robust secondary market platform for resales. Curated resales include pieces by Judy Chicago, Hung Liu, Leslie Dill, Jim Dine, Joseph Eads, Kiki Smith, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Charles Arnoldi, Nicola Lopez, Philip Guston, Alfred Jensen, Louise Bourgeois, Vernon Fisher, and others.
In October 2022, we opened CONTAINER at 1226 Flagman Way in Santa Fe in a very special building made of shipping containers. Art institution meets commercial gallery meets private collection, CONTAINER introduces an innovative vision for art exhibitions. CONTAINER will bring touring museum exhibitions to the artistic heartland of Santa Fe, New Mexico, offering collectors an opportunity to purchase artworks by sought-after artists directly from its institutional exhibitions.
Double Vision: Seeing is believing for Turner Carroll Gallery’s founders. Written by Alex De Vore, Santa Fe Reporter, April 3, 2024.
Michael E.S. Carroll
Owner
A 1988 graduate of the history department at Duke University, Michael was, along with his wife Tonya, the co-founder of the Turner Carroll Gallery in 1991. He brings a historical perspective to curating Turner Carroll exhibitions. Michael studied the arts at Duke, in New York City, in Moscow and in St. Petersburg. He was a two-term, past president of the Santa Fe Gallery Association, and was twice named one of the 40 most influential New Mexicans under 40 years of age. In addition, he has helped raise several hundred thousand dollars for arts education through the SFGA’s charity arm, Art Smart. Michael is frequently asked to lecture on topics like artist-gallery relations, and he continues to serve on several boards.
When Eastern Europe underwent historic changes economically and politically in the late 1980s, Michael designed curatorial trips and exhibitions around these themes. In the past fifteen years his focus on the use of craft in fine art, the work of women artists, and the work of people of color and their stories has taken the gallery in a new direction. Michael is an avid collector of contemporary art. Original work in his collection includes pieces by Kara Walker, Judy Chicago, Hung Liu, Louise Nevelson, Mulyana, Sui Park, Frances Gallardo, Richard Hambleton, Charles White, and Agnes Martin.
Tonya Turner Carroll
Owner
Tonya Turner Carroll advises private collectors and corporate clients on art acquisitions, assisting them in research, value estimations, and collecting. She has curated numerous exhibitions of contemporary art for museums, art centers, and cultural centers in the U.S. and abroad. Among them, Hung Liu: Women Warriors, at the Kalamazoo Institute of Art in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Others include numerous exhibitions of contemporary Mexican artwork at the Four Seasons Resort Cultural Center in Punta Mita, Mexico; and Mexican contemporary art at St. Regis Punta Mita Resort’s Cultural Center. With husband, Michael Carroll and their children, Turner Carroll created Arte Mita, an organization bringing international artists together with school children of different countries. Via youth art sales, Arte Mita has helped form art programming at schools in Sayulita and Punta de Mita, Mexico, as well as in New Mexico and the Navajo Nation.
Turner Carroll and husband Michael Carroll wrote the definitive monograph on Romanian contemporary artist Traian Alexandru Filip, which won a small press book award upon publication. She has also authored several articles, blogs, and catalogue essays on contemporary art and artists. Turner Carroll has served on the boards of the Santa Fe Gallery Association and Friends of Contemporary Art for the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe. She currently serves on the Governing Board of 516 Arts, a contemporary museum in Albuquerque, as well as the aM Contemporaries Council of the Albuquerque Museum.
Art Advisory and Curatorial Services for Private and Public Collectors
Turner Carroll works closely with all levels of public and private collectors, in both the U.S. and internationally. Turner Carroll takes an art historical approach to helping collectors visualize their aesthetic and intellectual desires for their collection, presenting artworks to them which not only meet their objectives, but which expose them to new ideas and opportunities, as well. Turner Carroll prides itself in establishing long term relationships with collectors purchasing works through the gallery, helping them express their artistic interests coherently, through a carefully curated collection. Turner Carroll offers art advisory services from concept development and sourcing sought after artworks, to art education, research, studio visits, acquisition, and de-accessioning.
Over the decades, Turner Carroll has worked as independent curator with such museums as the Sangre de Cristo Art Center (Pueblo, Colorado), and Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (Kalamazoo, Michigan). Corporate clients Turner Carroll has advised include the Four Seasons Resort (Punta Mita, Mexico); Sidley Law Firm (Dallas, Texas); La Posada de Santa Fe, a Rock Resort (Santa Fe, New Mexico); and The St. Regis (Punta Mita, Mexico).
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