All About Mentoring Spring 2011 - SUNY Empire State College
All About Mentoring Spring 2011 - SUNY Empire State College
All About Mentoring Spring 2011 - SUNY Empire State College
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Interiors<br />
Installations by Carol Warner, Metropolitan Center<br />
“The Best of Everything,” 2006, mixed-media room installation, Parsons The New School for Design at Peer Gallery, New York, N.Y.<br />
My work bridges the gap between<br />
photography and sculpture. I am<br />
particularly interested in appropriating<br />
photographic images from a variety of print media<br />
and expanding them into three-dimensional spaces.<br />
My current series of home improvement installations<br />
are based on the idea of a “dream house.” They<br />
combine found images of luxury apartments with<br />
home improvement materials from “big box” stores.<br />
The resulting sculptural environment examines the<br />
economics of housing, the process of consumption,<br />
and the complexities of achieving the American<br />
dream. The goal is to explore the way photography<br />
generates longing through these snapshots of idyllic<br />
home life.<br />
“The Best of Everything” features the projection<br />
of a found image and replicas of objects staged<br />
in the original photograph, such as a chandelier,<br />
a pillow, a candy dish and a herring-bone floor.<br />
The intention is to invite the viewer into an<br />
environment framed by the gallery, which presents<br />
an unusual space between media and reality.