An Appalachian Landscape Painting

1944, Chicago. Acclaim for Carroll's work began at 13 when she was awarded a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago's Saturday Program. In 1974 she sold her house, left her teaching position in rural Illinois to move back to Chicago, making her home and studio in a former charcoal factory. At the Richard Gray Gallery she met her husband to be, the famous poet, publisher of Big Table, Paul Carroll. In 1993 she and Paul left their factory loft to move to a farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. It is in this beautiful setting that she continued to work with metal, ceramic, cast stone and resin sculpture incorporating, poetry, sound and water, assisted by her Scottish sculpture partner, Joseph E. Potter. Often they embed poems by her late husband in the sculpture they fabricate. "the interconnection of nature, work, fruitfulness and the rhythms of the universe are enduring currents in Maryrose Carroll's sculpture". " critic Dennis Adrian Now at 67, Maryrose has shifted her attention to a new project, incorporating the daily numbers appearing without explanation on her solar calculator. To initiate the work on this new seriesand celebrate the 30th anniversary of her 1982 book, "Alice's Book" she will be offering a special, premier offering of a photographic image from the book, "marriage of hand and light".