Pleased to share an image from my new series We Are Made of Many Suns is available to purchase via CPA’s 8x10 auction! Bidding ends on 9/28/2023
To view the full auction: Center for Photographic Art 8x10 Auction
To bid on my image: Granville Carroll, Untitled
Dates:
Jan 18, 2024 - Feb 8, 2024
Levels: Intermediate, Advanced
Workshop Duration: 8 hours over 4 sessions (Thursdays, 5-7pm ET)
Visit the link below to sign up or learn more!
https://www.mainemedia.edu/workshops/item/breaking-the-tools-in-photoshop-online/
Learn how to break the tools and rules in photoshop with me! I will be teaching an online Photoshop workshop with maine Media Workshops. Read below for more details.
Class Description
There are times when it is necessary to break the rules. In art, we have the freedom to make creative choices that push the boundaries and explore new ways of expressing creativity.
In this course, students will be exposed to the various tools and functions in Adobe Photoshop and how to use them in unorthodox ways. Students will be given the freedom to explore a range of selection tools, brushes, healing tools, filters, and more to alter their images. This class will allow you to experiment with various creative structures to enhance your images and/or manipulate them. This class will enable you to feel much more comfortable with the basics of Photoshop, while also learning to take hold of your creative freedom and exercise your curiosity.
Course requirements
Students should have a basic understanding of Photoshop.
My newest project, Dark Matter is available for purchase through Visual Studies Workshop. Read more about the project below. You can also listen to a wonderful interview with Hernease Davis about the project and my time spent at VSW as an AIR. Links below
Dark Matter by Granville Carroll is an artist’s book about darkness and light, the infinity of the cosmos and the divine, big bangs and subtle language. Themes relating to cosmic origins and thoughts on existence, life and death, are embedded in the writings and images. Comprised of heavy black paper with only silver and black printing, the reader of Dark Matter must adjust to an aesthetic where light reaches into an already compelling and infinite-seeming blackness. Dark Matter expands on Carroll’s themes of Afrofuturism, years of beautiful experiments with analog and digital photographic montage techniques, and poetry. This project extends from his greater work that “explores and expands ideas around racial blackness to encompass spatial blackness, temporal blackness, and spiritual blackness. Carroll highlights the imaginative qualities of the human mind through world building and storytelling to discover new futures and states of being.”
2022, VSW Press, 148 pages, 6 x 9 inches, coil bound with screen printed soft matte covers, digital offset, edition of 150
Hossein Fardinfard, from his Blackout series | http://www.hossein.art/ | IG: @hossein.foto
It is with great pleasure that I share I was announced as one of the top 50 artists named in Photolucida’s Critical Mass. My project Black Serenity is listed amongst many other phenomenal artists for this years Critical Mass Top 50 selection. View the Top 50 via the link below!
“Critical Mass is an annual online program that makes connections within the photography community. Photographers at any level, from anywhere in the world, submit a portfolio of 10 images. Through a pre-screening process, the field is narrowed to a group of 200 finalists who go on to have their work viewed and voted on by over 200 esteemed international photography professionals (check out the "success stories" page for connections made through Critical Mass). From the Finalist group, the TOP 50 are named and a series of awards are given.”
Exciting news!! A limited edition print of my image Surrender, from my project In the Finite, Infinitely is now available through F22 Fine Art Prints. It's an edition of 22 prints sized at 8.5x11 (image size 6.5x8in) and is available for a limited time only (until 8/4/22). Use the link below to purchase!
About the Image
As I peer into the darkness of space, pondering the origins of existence, I can’t help but feel a sense of surrender. I watch as the universe unfolds, and particles crystallize into matter. The human form disintegrates and merges with the foundational elements of fire and water. Our minds are intertwined with the patterns of life and death, the body slips away. Like a fractal turning upon itself, energy, matter, and consciousness are transmuted repeatedly. The circle mandala is present to remind us of the cyclical and endless formation of devolution and evolution.
Breaking news: I’m a 2022 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Photography! In addition to being named a NYFA Fellow, I was also named as one of 5 for the JGS (Joy of Giving Something) Fellowship as well! I am so excited for the peer recognition and to be part of a program that has supported artists of all disciplines across New York State for 37 years. Thankful to have this kind of support for my work and excited to put the award money to use! Full details at nyfa.org. #NYSCANYFAFellows
Granville Carroll says, "Photography has a wonderful ability to showcase stories and narratives that transcend the linear construct of time. The malleability of the medium helps us to visually construct our personal and collective origin stories. It can shift the ways we view the world and our place within it. I often ask myself who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? These self-reflective questions can reveal how personal and collective histories impact our creative vision to represent the world through photography. To understand the ”why” regarding our use of photography, it is important to go back to the source, to where identity began to be shaped. Peering into the past allows us to confront the many ways we have constructed our identities and how our identities have been constructed for us through social values, family legacy, and cultural traditions. Reflecting on the past allows us to understand where we are currently and the possibilities for where we will go next.
I am interested in seeing images that reflect these ideas, that show us how you examine your origins of being and its manifestation in your art practice. How does your upbringing, ideologies, belief systems, and traditions influence your representations through photography? Share with us how you explore your origin stories, whether it is based in history and fact or based in fiction and the imagination. Some origins have been lost, some transformed, and some have maintained their essence throughout time. Submit images that showcase how you meditate on the origins of your life and how it has shaped your identity. All conceptual approaches are welcome. All photographic processes, from analog to digital, are welcome."
Submit Via this link: https://nyphotocurator.com/current-call-for-entry-origin-stories-personal-cosmologies-curated-by-granville-carroll-deadline-to-enter-may-31-2022
20% of artist entry fees will go to charity.
ALL entries are shown on their own page with their bio, contact info and website.