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- Carroll Sockwell (1943–1992) was an American artist whose nonrepresentational drawings, paintings, and assemblages drew upon both classical modernist and minimalist traditions and showed an ability to integrate geometric with gestural abstraction. He was known for his ability to introduce nuances of color and emphasis in bare and simple pictorial themes. Difficult to label, his work was seen as paradoxical: "elegant and anguished, somber and yet playful, rigorous yet free." Throughout his career, he faced challenges that were beyond his control and seemed, as one observer said, to be "an artist who by birth, temperament and timing started out carrying a heavy load." Nonetheless, he also seemed to be his own worst enemy, disregarding the necessity of earning a living and alienating those who tried to help him. (en)
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- Washington, D.C., U.S. (en)
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- Washington, D.C., U.S. (en)
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- painting, drawings, sculptures (en)
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- "I am interested in composition, line, the intellectual side of art. I'm not really interested in the prettiness but rather the strength of art. I want my art to be my own personal statement." (en)
- "Smudged, enigmatic calligraphic scrawls whisper across a row of five white rectangles. Jewel-like reds and blues glint through crisscross forests of shiny black crayon. A perfectly twisted curve of scrap metal has the power to rivet one to the spot. So few artists today are truly masters of their media. Even fewer appreciate the purely aesthetic value of line, color and composition. So when one has occasion to see an entire exhibition of works by an artist of the caliber of Carroll Sockwell, it comes as a revelation. Here is a craftsman who has never for a moment doubted the poetry, or the passion, that nonobjective abstraction is capable of expressing, and who has talent, sensitivity and vision enough to make it so." (en)
- "In an era of loud, large and too often bombastic imagery, Sockwell's [work] has far more in common with the intimate visual poesy of Paul Klee's or Wassily Kandinsky's, of an earlier, more severely intellectual period." (en)
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- Washington Post critic, Michael Welzenbach, reviewing a retrospective solo exhibition in June 1992 (en)
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- Carroll Sockwell (1943–1992) was an American artist whose nonrepresentational drawings, paintings, and assemblages drew upon both classical modernist and minimalist traditions and showed an ability to integrate geometric with gestural abstraction. He was known for his ability to introduce nuances of color and emphasis in bare and simple pictorial themes. (en)
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