About

I grew up in North Carolina, was educated at Duke University (BA) and Bard College, New York (MFA in painting). I’ve lived mainly in three places in my life: Durham, North Carolina; Austin, Texas; and since 2000, in Germany. Painting and drawing are for me a way of exploring the world, and the tradition of painting offers many possibilities. I’m less interested in mimesis than in how painting reaches the senses. I sometimes think of “brush as touch,” of “light as sight.” Painting provides an imaginative field of play between perception and conception, between image and language.

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Contact

carolynprescott@web.de

Vita

Education/Awards

Master of Fine Arts, Painting, 1987, Bard College, New York

Bachelor of Arts, 1973, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

Stipendium: NEA Visual Arts Fellowship, National Endowment of the Arts, 1992

Artist’s Materials Grant, Daniel Smith, Inc., 1989: Investigation of Fresco Technique

Purchase Prize, 2020, Friends of Kommunale Galerie Berlin, Kunsthaus Schoeler-Berlin, Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf

Group Exhibitions

2022, July 22, KANG Contemporary, Summer Show, Berlin: Lea Bräuer, Frank Coldewey, Lisa Glauer, Katrin von Lehmann, Gudrun Petersdorff, Carolyn Prescott, TZUSOO

2021, July 3 - August 20, Transfusio at KANG Contemporary, Berlin; curated by Rahel Schrohe: Katrin von Lehmann, MASCH, Carolyn Prescott, Raúl de Zárate

2020, August 19 - Oktober 2, 100 Jahre Berlin 20/20, Kunsthaus Schoeler, Berlin. Purchase Prize, Kommunalengalerie Wilmersdorf-Charlottenburg

2020, Summer, MFA at 40 Postcard Project, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2020 July 3 - 26, Neuaufnahmen, GEDOK Galerie Berlin

2020 January 17 - February 9, Spaltung, Vorurteile, Zwietracht, GEDOK Galerie Berlin (six person thematic exhibit)

2016 July 7: De Femmes Et De Mains Sales, interaudio Tonstudio, Neukölln

2012 November: Das ganze Spectrum der Radierkunst/The Whole Spectrum of Etching, VHS Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Berlin

2012, June 19-July 15: Central Booking in Berlin, K-Salon, Berlin Kreuzberg

2010 November 4- 2011 January: Attract/Repel (anziehen/abstoßen) Central Booking NYC Gallery, Brooklyn

2007 May-September: Kottbuskunst akut, Installation und Kollaboration (public installation/transnational collaboration) in Oberkirche (Town Church) with M. Körner of Germany and Abushariaa of Uganda

2006 May: Actuelle Künstpositionen 1990-2006/Current Viewpoints 1990-2006, Dieselkraftwerk Museum, Cottbus

1998 January: Reunion/Wiedersehen, James Gallery, Houston, Texas

1994 Profiles IV: Paint, work by Texas recipients of the Visual Arts Fellowship Award, Mid-America Arts Alliance, National Endowment for the Arts; Arlington Museum of Art, Texas (Arbeit von Texas Preisträger von National Endowment for the Arts)

1993 Small Works, Inman Gallery, Houston

1992 New Works, Six Austin and Central Texas Artists, Austin Museum of Art (AMOA), Austin, Texas

1992 Slouching Toward 2000—Politics of Gender, juror Lucy Lippard, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin

1992 New World Order, Centro Colombo Americano, Medellin, Colombia

1990 Monoprints, Museo de la Estampa, Mexico City, Mexico

1989 Common Ground—Beyond Boundaries, Dallas Women’s Caucus for Art, Dallas, Texas

1988 Sixty-Four Beds, Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, Texas: an exhibition addressing homelessness

Solo and Two-person Exhibitions

2011 November 27: Overthrow Paintings/Umsturz Serie , Arsenal Kino, Berlin, an exhibition of retablo-like paintings of American foreign policy, concerning the overthrow of foreign heads of state

2008 July: Carolyn Prescott, Nebeneinander/Side by Side, Galerie 23, Cottbus, Germany

2005 January: Gemälde/Paintings, Finanzgericht des Landes Brandenburg, Germany

2003 April: Familienbande/Family Ties, Buhne 8, Brandenburg Technical University, Cottbus

1997 September: Carolyn Prescott—Paintings, James Gallery, Houston, Texas

1993 November: New Paintings/Neue Gemälde, Galeria sin Fronteras, Austin, Texas

1990 April: Paintings/Gemälde, Carolyn Prescott, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, Texas

Press/Presse

“Erinnerung, Vorstellung, Empfindung zu den Bildern der Malerin Carolyn Prescott,” by Suzanne Lambrecht, Hermann, Feb 2005 (Memory, Imagination, Feeling: on the Work of Painter Carolyn Prescott)

Carolyn Prescott, eine amerikanische Malerin in Cottbus, by Suzanne Lambrecht, Pro Libris, Prezentacje, (German-Polish Art Magazine) 2005 (Carolyn Prescott, an American Painter in Cottbus)

Public News, “A Cohesive Reunion,” by Catherine D. Anspon, January 29, 1997 (Eine cohäsiv Zusammenkunft)

The Dallas Morning News, “Arlington Museum offers fresh ‘paint’,” Janet Kutner, March 6, 1994

Austin Chronicle, “Close to the Heart,” by Rebecca Levy, June 4, 1993 (Nah zum Herz)

Austin American-Statesman, “Human figure key to body of work,” Saundra Goldman, Nov 20, 1993 (Die menschliche Figur ist den Schlüssel zum Oeuvre der Künstlerin)

El Mundo, “Experiencias en el nuevo orden,” April, 1992 (Experiences in the New World Order; Erfahrungen in der neuen Weltordnung)

Austin American-Statesman, “New strokes are brilliant,” by Pete Szilagyi, September 19, 1992 (Neue Arbeit ist genial)

Collections/Sammlungen

Kommunalen Galerie, Berlin Wilmersdorf-Charlottenburg Artothek, durch den Freundeskreis der Galerie (Berlin City Gallery of Wilmersdorf-Charlottenburg Artothek; purchased by the Friends of the Gallery

Staatsbibliothek Berlin–Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Unter den Linden, Berlin (Berlin State Library, Berlin-Prussian Cultural Holdings)

Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University (School Rules/First Grade)

Maria-Luisa Gaettens, Hamburg, Germany

Gilbert Cardenas, Galeria sin Fronteras

Laurence Miller, Austin, Texas

Cynthia Noe, New York City

Chris and James Cowan, Austin, Texas

Peter Mears and Catherine Goddard, Austin, Texas

Felicia Bond, Santa Fe, New Mexico