Granville Carroll
We are just delighted to feature the works of Granville Carroll. Carroll is an educator, Mixed media Afro-futurist photographer. He currently has work at the Tempe Center for the Arts in Tempe Arizona. His works are featured in numerous venues including the Silver Eye Center for Photography, the Center for Photographic Arts/Denver and he was named in the top 200 with Photolucida 2020. Currently in Rochester NY he works as an adjunct at Arizona State University (Online BFA Digital Photography Program)..
I met Granville when working with the New England Portfolio reveiws sponsored by the Griffin Museum of Photography and Photographic Resource Center. I did not personally review his works at that time but found my way in the weeks following the event. Granville has a number of compelling portfolios and here we are sharing images from his Cosmotypes project. Granville is using cameraless artistry to create these expansive abstract beautiful works. Using the wet plate collodion process with glass, metal and acrylic Mr. Carroll is giving us a view into something unseen and incidental. Transcendent dreamscapes. A sense of a cosmic world in another dimension. Beautiful and infinite the images offer us a universe of the unconscious, of a hopeful and delicate future.
I’m reminded of a quote from Afro-Futurist, Sun Ra “I pull the veil aside
and step through its portals, dreams rush to meet me.”
-Steven Duede, Fine Art Photography/Mixed Media, Aspect Gallery Principal.
I take hold of the power of creation to conceive of my own cosmic universes. This process enables me to act as a co-creator to the forces that brought everything into existence.
Cosmotypes
As many of us do, I often wonder what or who created the universe. I imagine the power needed to make something out of nothing. This project was born from my curiosity in the origins of existence and the role we play individually and collectively in creating it. Using cameraless techniques, I create a variety of collodion plates on metal, glass, and clear acrylic that reflect the creation of the cosmos. I take hold of the power of creation to conceive of my own cosmic universes. This process enables me to act as a co-creator to the forces that brought everything into existence. The hum of creation and the bitterness of space ending is realized in the making of these cosmotypes. I set my gaze on the expanse of space, marveling at the vibratory dance of light and darkness.
-Granville Carroll
Granville Carroll
Granville Carroll
Granville Carroll is an educator and Afrofuturist photographer currently based in Rochester, NY. Carroll received a BFA in photography from Arizona State University and a MFA in photography and related media from the Rochester Institute of Technology. His work explores the relationship between the external material world and the imaginative and vulnerable inner space of the mind. He explores this curiosity through the intersection of art, spirituality, science, and philosophy. His work uses the indexical nature of photography to bend the world and create new and imaginative landscapes and self-portraits to envision new futures and identities.
Granville Carroll was recently named as one of 47 artists on the inaugural Silver List through the Silver Eye Center of Photography. Carroll’s work has been exhibited in the United States and featured on multiple online platforms such as Artdoc Magazine, Humble Arts Foundation, Lenscratch, Photo-Emphasis, and Float Photo.
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