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25th Anniversary at Turner Carroll Gallery

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Friday, 3 June 2016
Opening: 
Friday, 3 June 2016 - 5:00pm

Twenty-five years ago (June 1, 1991), Michael Carroll and Tonya Turner Carroll opened the doors of Turner Carroll Gallery, at 725 Canyon Road--the same location it occupies today.

 

The two had little, other than a dream, degrees in art/ history, and a true love of art, to fuel their ambitions. Theirs is a story of courage and risk, and an example of how following your bliss is the most meaningful path to manifesting success.

 

Turner Carroll studied art history at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she was a Morehead-Cain Scholar. She went on Stanford’s Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, and Hebrew University, Jerusalem, as a Raoul Wallenberg Scholar. She worked with Sotheby’s, London, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Israel Museum, and two contemporary galleries in Santa Fe. Carroll studied history and the arts at Duke University, NYU, and Leningrad State University. He worked with experimental theater great Ping Chong, and at La Mama Theater in New York. Turner and Carroll met working on a multi-media performance work at Duke University in 1989.

 

Turner and Carroll were certain they wanted to open a gallery only if it could survive showing only artists whose works they were passionate about; artists with whom they believed they could make a difference in the history of art. And they have done just that! They have written books on their artists, curated exhibitions internationally, and exhibited their artists in some of the most prestigious art fairs in the U.S.

 

Turner Carroll has launched and furthered the careers of many contemporary artists whose works are now included in major museums throughout the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Louvre, Belvedere Museum (Vienna), Harvard’s Fogg Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Brooklyn Art Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, Vatican Collection, and many more.  

 

They continue to seek out artists whose works provoke social change/social reflection. Some of their best-known artists are Chinese painter Hung Liu, who grew up under Mao, and Traian Filip, head of Romania’s State Engraving Studios during the rule of horrendous dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Their interest in the intersection of science and art precipitated their representation of such artists as Shawn Smith and Rusty Scruby.

 

Turner and Carroll have served as President of the Santa Fe Gallery Association and SFGA founding board member for Art Smart--the philanthropic association that raises money for art programs in public schools. Tonya served on New Mexico Museum of Art’s Friends of Contemporary Art Board, Board Member for Santa Fe Aquatic Club, and School Advisory Board for Wood Gormley Elementary School. Turner and Carroll created ArteMita, an art project in Mexico, which brought Mexican contemporary artists into small villages to teach classes to local children. Through ArteMita, they curated Mexican Contemporary Art for the Four Seasons and St. Regis resorts, in Punta Mita, Mexico. Funds raised through their exhibitions benefited art programs at Costa Verde International School. They continue to support art in schools by holding workshops at schools on the Navajo Nation, as well as helping the Visual Arts Department at Albuquerque Academy, by featuring a juried selection of high school student artworks in an annual exhibition at Turner Carroll.  

 

This 25th anniversary provides a time of reflection and anticipation for Turner Carroll. Throughout this exhibition season, Turner Carroll will feature a stellar lineup of its most eagerly collected artists, as well as some exciting new additions!

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