Artist Lecture with Granville Carroll

COMO is pleased to host an artist lecture with Granville Carroll, a visual artist and photographer examining metaphysical spirituality. Please join COMO for an artist lecture with Granville Carroll. Carroll is a visual artist and photographer examining metaphysical spirituality. His work unravels the multifaceted dimensions of reality, asking us to ponder what exists beyond the physical. He questions the constructs of racial Blackness and expands the conversation to incorporate temporal, spatial, and spiritual blackness. Through self-portraiture, landscape, and photo manipulation, Carroll creates new realities and states of being. He explores the boundless potential of the imagination, drawing inspiration from science, science fiction, poetry, philosophy, and Afrofuturism. Through various visual strategies, he investigates selfhood, identity, representation, and abstraction. Carroll currently teaches photography at Arizona State University as an Assistant Teaching Professor. He earned a BFA in Art (Photography) from Arizona State University and an MFA in Photography and Related Media from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He was named a Top 50 finalist in Critical Mass, received a NYFA/NYSCA Fellowship in Photography, and was awarded the Joy of Giving Something (JGS) Fellowship for Photography. Carroll was included in the 2021 inaugural Silver List and was an artist-in-residence at the Visual Studies Workshop. His work has been published on various online platforms and in print media such as Humble Arts Foundation, Black Is Magazine, Brink Literary, Kris Graves Projects, RIT Press, Lenscratch, and Float Photo. Carroll’s images appear in Light and Lens: Thinking About Photography in the Digital Age (Robert Hirsch and Edward Bateman), Seizing the Light: A Social and Aesthetic History of Photography (Robert Hirsch), and There’s Light: Artworks & Conversations Examining Black Masculinity, Identity & Mental Well-Being (Glenn Lutz). His work is in private and public collections. Public collections include Northlight Gallery, ASU Mirabella, RIT College of Art and Design, and Phillips Exter Academy Library. This in-person event will take place at 1322 Grand Ave, Phoenix. Spaces are limited. If you cannot attend, please cancel your reserved tickets in the confirmation email you receive, so those waitlisted may attend. This free event is sponsored by COMO Art Foundation and the City of Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture.