Carole Silverstein
Carole Silverstein is a Los Angeles based artist who has exhibited in galleries and alternative venues throughout the US, including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland, and San Francisco. In 2015 she showed at the 56th Venice Biennale in an exhibit entitled \u201cWe Must Risk Delight: 20 Artists from Los Angeles\u201d at the Magazzino del Sale, Venice Italy. Additionally, her work was featured in an exhibit which traveled to London, Paris, Berlin, Manila, Capetown, and Johannesburg. She received her MFA from Queens College, CUNY and her BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, with additional study at the International School of Art in Montecastello di Vibio, Italy.\n\nIn 2000, a book collaboration of her collages and the poetry of Jim Henderson was published entitled \u201cClearly These Clouds\u201d. Her artworks are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Citibank, Art in US Embassies (US Embassy Djibouti), Art for Healing, The Salser Collection, and numerous private collections. She lives with her husband and son in Los Angeles.\n\nBooks mentioned in the interview are Rebecca Solnit's Orwell's Roses and Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now.\n\nSolo show at Nancy Toomey Fine Art, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco. Includes installation elements of silver tape floor drawings and satin & sequin fabrics running along the borders of the gallery floor.\n\ntouching the constellations, 40\u201d x 36\u201d, Acrylic Ink on Mylar\n\nshe wears her potency as ornaments, 58\u201d x 42 1/2\u201d, Acrylic Ink on Mylar