—  About

Lindsey Meyers Carroll is a contemporary artist working in magic realism through large-scale charcoal drawings.

Magic realism, “the work of painters who, by means of an exact realistic technique, try to make plausible and convincing their improbable, dreamlike or fantastic visions.” –Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

“What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.” –Isabel Allende

From growing up in Montana, I have a deep and abiding appreciation for the western art tradition, which uses details from daily life to tell the story of the commonplace and the people that occupy it. As a contemporary of this culture, my work reflects its influence by employing realism, portraiture and animal life to which I often infuse a sense of the imaginary or surreal. A slight shift of the real toward the unreal turns an otherwise plausible and familiar scene into a vehicle for fantasy, daydream and often memory, all of which act as metaphors for what is beyond the veil of our surroundings. By melding disparate subject matter in unexpected ways, each drawing becomes a vehicle for inquiry, examination and discovery.

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