Carol Salmanson (b. Providence, RI) is a painter who often uses light to create installations, sculptures, and wall pieces. Her use of light has been inspired by sources as diverse as dance, lighting design and Byzantine mosaics.
SmartSpaces presented Carol Salmonson: Park Avenue Lights in the windows of 254 Park Avenue South.
The artist received a B.S. in Biological Psychology from Carnegie-Mellon University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. She attended the Arts Students League, the School of Visual Arts as a Public Art Resident, and the National Academy of Fine Arts as an Abbey Mural Workshop Fellow. She has exhibited at SL Gallery, New York, NY; Slag Contemporary (Brooklyn, NY); Station Independent Projects (New York, NY); Brian Morris Gallery (New York, NY); the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey; Storefront Bushwick (Brooklyn, NY); and others.
Public art projects include Water Bubbles, an installation in twenty windows of the abandoned landmark Constructivist White Tower in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Other window installations include Crown Colony in midtown Manhattan, Station Independent Projects, Time Equities’ Art-in-Buildings program, OK Harris Works of Art, 254 Park Avenue South, and Mixed Greens Gallery, all in New York, NY. Her outdoor sculptures include Tri-Quadular Cone in Summit, NJ, and Lot’s Ex-Wife in Brooklyn, NY. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
- Project: Carol Salmonson: Park Avenue Lights
- Artist Website: https://www.carolsalmanson.com