Carole Caroompas
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Carole Caroompas | |
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| Born | November 1946 (Scorpio) Oregon City, Oregon |
| Died | July 31, 2022 |
| Education | M.F.A. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 1971. B.A. California State University, Fullerton, California, 1968. |
| Known for | Painting |
| Awards | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (1995), National Endowment for the Arts, Painting (1987/1993), COLA, City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Grant (1999), California Community Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship (2005) |
Carole Caroompas (1946 – July 31, 2022) was an American painter known for work which examined the intersection of pop culture and gender archetypes.[1]
Carole Caroompas was born in Oregon City, Oregon, and spent her childhood in Newport Beach, California.[2]
Caroompas earned a B.A. from California State University, Fullerton and an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California.[3] She taught fine art courses at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles.[4]
Career
Carole Caroompas's paintings are complex, layered compositions that deconstruct popular cultural narratives to explore gender and power dynamics from a feminist perspective. Throughout her five-decade career, the Los Angeles-based artist drew from diverse sources, including literature, mythology, film, and punk aesthetics, to create her "fragmented narratives." Her work is visually dense, theatrical, and demands to be decoded by the viewer[5]
Awards and fellowships
Caroompas' awards included grants from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, COLA (City of L.A.), two from the National Endowment for the Arts and a California Community Foundation Fellowship.[3] In 1995 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[6]
Selected exhibitions
Caroompas exhibited at the Ben Maltz Gallery in Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art, LACMA, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Western Project in Culver City, Mark Moore in Santa Monica, P.P.O.W. in New York, Sue Spaid Fine Art, the Hammer Museum at UCLA, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
1994: "Before and After Frankenstein: The Woman Who Knew Too Much" at Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, California[7]
1998: "Carole Caroompas: Lady of the Castle Perilous" at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California[8]
1999: “Heathcliff and the Femme Fatale go on Tour” at the Mark Moore Gallery in Santa Monica, California[9]
2008: "Dancing with Misfits: Eye-Dazzler” at Western Project, Culver City, California[10]
2015: "Lore and Behold: The Art of Carole Caroompas" at Pasadena City College[11]
