Carol
Scott

Carol Scott is Professor Emeritus of Art at University of Holy Cross, New Orleans. This Summer her artwork has been selected for the Chianciano Biennale in Tuscany. https://biennalechianciano.org/en/selected-artists-2024/ 

Carol is an accomplished Artist and Poet nominated for the Griffin Prize; she has two books of poetry and art, Rhapsody and Redolence: The Crystal Decade (Cascade, April 2024); Luminous Mysteries: The Passion of the Last Words (Kalos, 2025). In each book she creates 25 pieces of original art including the cover. https://wipfandstock.com/9798385202300/rhapsody-and-redolence/ Her ability to cross between two different creative mediums, art and poetry, and to fuse into a dynamic expression of wonder, nakedness, the erotic and the sacred have been recognized and praised. This past Spring, Carol was the invited solo artist for The Building https://www.building1427.com/ with a retrospective of 70 pieces of her artwork.  She is a permanent gallery artist at Gallery 600 Julia, New Orleans with an upcoming solo shows “Summertime Lacunae” (July 2024) and “Gallopers” (November 2024). https://gallery600julia.com/carol-scott/

 This Fall she will have a four-month solo show at St. Francis College, New York City with lectures on her art and poetry. Carol has created over 600 original pieces of art. The City of New Orleans selected her work for their permanent collection, and she has served as the Vice President of the Women’s Caucus for Art. Carol is an advocate against ageism in the arts and her retrospective is a way or bring the issue into dialogue through Beauty Reflection. She also has a handful of pieces raising awareness for Breast Cancer.

ARTIST STATEMENT: My art is the visual exploration of the structural and expressive possibilities of light, sight, the prismatic effect of color and the effect on the retina. Looking through a form and how it changes as light goes in and out of the shapes, multiplies the layers of reality. To me, perception IS the sensory absorption into life. I seek the naked naturalness and erotic longing of first appearances.