Artist Statement
C A R O L E d’ I N V E R N O
Artist Statement
As an artist, I like working in series. This method allows for a broad range of possibilities and for intuitive and personal results. The vocabulary of shape, color and texture is essential to the overall process and guides the compositional development of the series.
For the series '3 Wheels Broke', I have garnered from many influences : architecture, chemistry, story telling, nature, History, etc.
Growing up in Europe, I was surrounded by old architecture and watched how time transforms and impacts all man made things. Surfaces are distressed and colors are broken up in random patterns. Memory has distilled those images and now it all resurfaces in my work.
I have been living in the North West for the last 23 years, and I have come to love how the weather covers and at the same time reveals the lusciousness of nature. Here nature continuously and mysteriously transforms itself. From my studio window I can look at the constant rearranging. It seeps into my work. It’s all alchemy to me.
Biography
Carole d’Inverno was born in 1956 and grew up in Italy and Belgium. She moved to the United States in 1979 and now resides in Seattle.
A self-taught artist, Carole has exhibited extensively in solo and group shows in the United States. Her work is in the public collections of Seattle Group Health, the Seattle University, Seattle Swedish Hospital and in private collections across the US and Europe.
Carole d’Inverno is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. In 2010, and 2009 she was in residency at the Vermont Studio Center in the US, and at the Wassard Elia Center, in Ascea , Italy. . While there, she also participated in the 2009 Biennale di Firenze. In 2011/2012 she will be in residency at Starry Night, Truth and Consequence, NM, the Vermont Studio Center, in Johnson Vermont, and BAU Institute, Otranto, Italy. In 2002, Carole d’Inverno was awarded Best in Show in the Richland City Arts Competition, juried by Debra Byrne, former Director of Curatorial Affairs and Exhibitions at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle, Washington.
Carole d’Inverno is currently represented by the Fetherston gallery and the Seattle Art Museum Rental Gallery, in Seattle, WA and the Tria Gallery in New York City, NY.
Carole d’Inverno is fluent in Italian and French. She is married to musician /composer Bill Frisell and they have one daughter.
