Mary Ellen Carroll
Mary Ellen Carroll is a conceptual artist living and working in New York City and Houston, Texas, whose career, spanning more than 20 years, has focused on a single, fundamental question: What do we consider a work of art? The results are multifarious, provocative, and often wry outpourings in architecture, writing, performance, photography, filmmaking, printmaking, sculpture, and painting that interrogate the relationship between subjectivity, language, and power. Carroll teaches architecture at Rice University in Houston, where she has manifested what she terms her opus, prototype 180, a 10-year project that involves the revolution of a single-family home on its foundation, conceived as a way of making architecture perform. Carroll has received much recognition for her daring and compelling work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Fellowship, a Pollack/Krasner Award, and most recently, the Artistic Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects in Houston. For Tuesday Evenings, Mary Ellen Carroll presents Architecture is Not Art.