All About Mentoring Spring 2011 - SUNY Empire State College

Interiors
Installations by Carol Warner, Metropolitan Center
“The Best of Everything,” 2006, mixed-media room installation, Parsons The New School for Design at Peer Gallery, New York, N.Y.
My work bridges the gap between
photography and sculpture. I am
particularly interested in appropriating
photographic images from a variety of print media
and expanding them into three-dimensional spaces.
My current series of home improvement installations
are based on the idea of a “dream house.” They
combine found images of luxury apartments with
home improvement materials from “big box” stores.
The resulting sculptural environment examines the
economics of housing, the process of consumption,
and the complexities of achieving the American
dream. The goal is to explore the way photography
generates longing through these snapshots of idyllic
home life.
“The Best of Everything” features the projection
of a found image and replicas of objects staged
in the original photograph, such as a chandelier,
a pillow, a candy dish and a herring-bone floor.
The intention is to invite the viewer into an
environment framed by the gallery, which presents
an unusual space between media and reality.