Carol has had group and solo exhibits worldwide including those at The Philadelphia Art Alliance, The Brad Cooper Gallery, Florida, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Urban Outfitters, Philadelphia and The American Academy in Rome. Her works are in numerous collections in Europe and the United States.
Carol is interested in connections between the art of painting and the extended world of design. Her current work explores the effects of engineers and designers on the landscape and reflects her history and ideology as a landscape architect. Her paintings refer to ecology, design, cartography, and engineering as well as the subject of landscape in the history of art.
Carol engages the formal conventions of historic landscape painting in the style and materiality of her paintings by combining symbolism with reality, perspective with cartographic flatness and an exaggerated configuration of nature overlaid with a designed reconfiguration of the landscape. Her landscape paintings provide a material manifestation of the dialectic of biophysical environments and culture.
Carol’s digital prints investigate the intersections between nature, science and art, but at a different scale and using the tools of modern technology - digital camera, computer and the printing process itself.
Carol uses the computer to manipulate her digital photographs, emphasizing, deleting, and rearranging to find the essential expression of her subject. She pares away extraneous information and presents an evocative and heightened version of the object, be it a flower, butterfly or ancient sculpture.
Before printing, Carol coats the paper with non absorbent mediums and uses variously textured papers to cause the printing inks to move across the paper before drying. The resulting images have a unique and painterly quality that further illuminates the quintessential character of the subject.