Overview & Events

Informal Artist Welcome: Dickson Carroll
June 16, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.

Gallery Talk: The Interaction of Architecture and Sculpture
July 6, 2:00 p.m.

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Enter a three-dimensional world that's colorful, abstract, and delightfully whimsical. Dickson Carroll's work as an artist and sculptor is informed by his work as architect. In many ways, one discipline doesn't exist without the other. Carroll creates "visionary" building projects in model form, frequently for specific places in our city. Some are transformations of existing or proposed buildings. Some are fantasies.

Interested in both function and beauty, Carroll makes furniture and other useful objects. He is also fascinated by landscapes and makes three-dimensional visions of specific places, often river scenes, which are built into light boxes with their own illumination. Carroll works primarily in wood, which is hand-carved, rasped and sanded smooth. There is a minimal use of electronic or computer-aided tools and he works without assistants. Don’t miss this exuberant retrospective of Dickson Carroll's work over the last fifty years.