Carol Sutton (artist)
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Carol Lorraine Sutton; born September 3, 1945, is a multi-disciplined artist born in Norfolk, Virginia, USA and now living in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She is an award winning painter whose works on canvas and paper have been shown in 32 solo exhibits as well as being included in 94 group shows. Her work, which ranges from complete abstraction to the use of organic and architectural images, relates to the formalist ideas of Clement Greenberg
and is noted for the use of color. Sutton was encouraged by critic Michael Fried whom she met 1n 1986 at Triangle Artist Workshop
. Some of Sutton paintings have been related to ontology.
(VCU) in Richmond and later at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro
, where her professors introduced to the work of Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland
. Sutton met Barnett Newman
by introduction of her professor Jewett Campbell as she related to the space used in his paintings. She later moved to Canada and is married to the sculptor André Fauteux
with whom she has two children, Viva-Laura Sutton-Fauteux and Yale Sutton-Fauteux.
in 1969 in his New York loft. Working on large sculpture in the isolation of her studio in Greensboro, North Carolina Sutton was offered a solo show of these works at The O.K. Harris Gallery, in New York. A move to Canada and the collapse of her marriage prevented her from taking up the offer. It would be eight years later before Sutton would return to New York to show as an artist, this time as a painter not a sculptor. In Canada Sutton produced multiple exhibitions across Canada and showed with the Theo Waddington Galleries Ltd, and later at Gallery One in Toronto. In Toronto, Sutton also did sculpture collaborations with contemporary electronic music composers. In Canada Sutton’s work was encouraged by the critics Clement Greenburg and Karen Wilkin
, and influenced by the artists Anthony Caro
and Helen Frankenthaler
, all of whom regularly came to her Toronto studio. Fauteux introduced Sutton to Jack Bush
in 1974 and has been included in a number of exhibitions related to Bush’s influence. In 1977, Sutton had her first Canadian exhibition at the A.C.T. Gallery. In 1978 Sutton held her first New York one-woman show at the William Edward O’Reilly Gallery.In the U.S.A. Sutton's work was noted by critic Kenworth Moffett, the Contemporary Curator of The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, who purchased her work 'Alvertie' for their collection and included her in the André Emmerich
Gallery touring show, The New Generation: A Curator's Choice.
Painting her art has been linked by prominent critics to the art movement called Lyrical Abstraction
. Her smaller paper works often take on unusual structural forms and have widely extended edges, sometimes cut in wave shapes. In 1987 Sutton was one of the few international artists invited to participate in the Art Triangle Workshop in Barcelona, her third Triangle workshop. Two years later a major Canada Council
Grant allowed her to again travel to Europe to photograph and study ironwork throughout Spain and France. The experience resulted in some of her most powerful paintings, especially a series titled 'THE SPIRIT BALCONY PAINTINGS'. Roald Nasgaard , in his book ‘Abstract Painting in Canada', writes of the artist, "Always a fluid and luscious painter of great gusto, comfortable with intimacy as well as the grand scale.”
1969 "Art on Paper", Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.A., November. Juror was Mr. Richard Bellamy, of New York City.
(2 works, black paper 3' x 5 2/3" rolled, pinned & clipped with paper clips, 1969)
1969 "Montpelier Farm Stable Show of Eight Artists", Landover, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, October ( sculpture of glass titled: 'Global March'
1976 "Olympiad XXI", Montreal, Quebec, (4 paintings)
1976 "Abstractions", Gallery-Straford, Stratford, Ontario, Canada; Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France; and Canada House, London, England
("Untitled :Tropical Series" painting , 1976)
1977 "New Abstract Art", Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada,
1978 "Certain Traditions: Recent British and Canadian Art"
(paintings , "Lockhaven, 1977, Bay Bridge, 1977, and Cove, 1977)
Touring Canada & United Kingdom: Mostyn Gallery, Lhanducho, Wales, City Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, England, Commonwealth Institute, London, England
1978 "Carol Sutton and Thomas Downing", William Edward O'Reilly Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A
1980 "The Staff Collects - An Experiment" - Shell Canada, Harbourfront Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1980 "Sutton, Saito, and Ross", Salander-O'Reilly Galleries Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A. ( paintings)
1980 "The New Generation: A Curator's Choice by Kenworth Moffett",
Premiere- The Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, New York, September 4 to 27 and then touring Europe in 1981 to;
American Cultural Centre, Paris, France, Amerika House, Berlin, West Germany, Arzore Cooperative, Porto, Portugal, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon, Portugal
1981 to 1982 "The Heritage of Jack Bush", (paintings 'Raleigh Red', 1981 and 'Pink Float', 1979)
In Canada: Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, Koffler Centre for the Arts, Willowdale, Ontario, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Medicine Hat Museum, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington, Ontario, Rodman Hall, St. Catherines, Ontario, Gallery - Stratford,Stratford, Ontario, Sir George Williams University, Montreal, Quebec
1981 Three Person Group Museum Show: "Carol Sutton, Kikuo Saito, and Terrance Keller", Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, ( "Fan Series" -including, 'Titan', 1981, 'Clarion', 1977, and 'Fruition', 1981)
1982 "Color II" , paintings by John Griefen, Darryl Hughto, Carol Sutton, Dan Christensen, Kikuo Saito, Susan Roth, and Clifford Ross, Martha White Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.(paintings - "Fan Series" -, 'Crossroads, 1981, and 'Umbrian Royal, 1982)
1982 "Selected Paintings of Contemporary Abstractionists", paintings by Carol Sutton, Ronnie Landfield, Darryl Hughto, Saito, Zox, Susan Roth, Tammany, Harman, and Francis, (paintings - "Fan Series" -'Clay Roses', 1981, and 'Crystal Brown Royal', 1981)
1985 "The MBA (Boston) Hines Contemporary Art Collection", University Place at Harvard Square, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
1987 "V.I.P..........A Selection of Very Important Painters celebrating their work of the 80's", Gallery One, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 29 to December 17, (paintings by: Stanley Boxer, Joseph Drapell, Fridel Dzubas, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Doug Haynes, David. Hockney, Katja Jacobs, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, Frank Stella, and Carol Sutton)
1998, -"Abstraction Now", Selected by Karen Wilkin"- , place: Gallery One, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Featuring paintings by: Ann Clarke, Michele Drouin, Katja Jacobs, Harold Feist, Joseph Drapell, Douglas Haynes, Bill Kort, Bobby Tamo, Alice Teichert, and Carol Sutton. Lecture given by Karen Wilkin. Painting included was: 'Salient Balcony', 1990
1999/2000 - 'Abstraction- A Curator's Choice', The Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. "Guest curator, Christiane Becker, was born in Cologne, Germany - Becker arrived at a list of five abstract painters: Joseph Drapell; Harold Feist; Paul Fournier; Carol Sutton; and, Jean McEwen.
2003, Grand Re-Opening Saturday April 12, 2003 - The Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge, United Kingdom, http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/ has loaned two paintings, Virginia Greens (1981) and Floral Tops (1986),
2007, The Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts,, 10 Year Celebration & Art Auction Benefit, New Berlin, NY
2009, Bright Colours, Big Canvas: Jack Bush', at Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, by Alicia Boutilier | Curator of Canadian Historical Art. Includes artists: David Bolduc, Paul Fournier, Milly Ristvedt, Alex Cameron, Dan Solomon, and K.M. Graham and Carol Sutton, with the painting: Mint Julep Nude. 1978
1973 FANCYE(^ Reference 11) by David Jaeger and Carol Sutton for Organ Toronto, Ontario, Canada and computer synthesized sound, moving sculpture, still sculpture and lights, for New Music Concerts, Concert Hall Organ - Inaugural Concerts, Edward Johnson Building, University of Toronto. Martin Liefhebber drawing of Fancye by Jaeger and Sutton
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston
The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
(Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, or MACBA)
The Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge, United Kingdom, The New Hall Women's Art Collection
The Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Agnes Etherington Art Centre Kingston, Ontario, Canada http://www.aeac.ca/
Canada Council Art Bank Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tuna, 1977 and Penny Royal 1977.
Memorial University of Newfoundland Art Gallery Saint Johns, New Brunswick, Canada
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, (AGGV),Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
1966 & 1967 Virginia Museum Fellowship
1967 The Gold Key and Art Achievement Award, Richmond Professional Institute (now Virginia Commonwealth University)
1967 Full Tuition Scholarship, to attend the 'School of Visual Arts' in New York City, New York, U.S.A.
1968, & 1969 Teaching Fellowship, University of North Carolian, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.A.
1969 Receives M.F. A. degree, Masters of Fine Art degree, from University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.A.
1969 CHANCELLORS PURCHASE AWARD, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.A., purchase of large scale sculpture by 'Weatherspoon Art Gallery', Greensboro, N.C.
Ontario Arts Council, Ontario, Canada 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979
CANADA COUNCIL ARTS 'B' BURSARY, Canada Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 1983
CANADA COUNCIL PROJECT TRAVEL COST, for travel to Triangle Artists Workshop, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 1988
CANADA COUNCIL SENIOR ARTS 'A' BURSARY, with travel cost to do photography in Barcelona, Spain, Madrid, Spain and Paris, France
1992
ADOLPH AND ESTHER GOTTLIEB FOUNDATION INC. GRANT, New York, New York, U.S. A.
Karen Wilkin Carol Sutton:,ARTS Magazine, December 1979
Kenworth Moffett The New Generation: A Curator's Choice, exhibition catalogue essay, illustrated, André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Karen Wilkin Selections from The Westburne Collection, The Edmonton Art Gallery, catalogue 1982
James Clark The Problem of Fundamental Ontology, Volume III, Limits Book Company, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Published 1973
Terry Fenton Feature Article: Canadians, Carol Sutton, Update, Volume 3, No. 1, January/February 1982, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
David Burnett & Marilyn Schiff illustrated, Contemporary Canadian Art, Co-published by Hurtig & Art Gallery of Ontario
Walter Darby Bannard- Carol Sutton's New Paintings- The Water Spiral Series, exhibition catalogue essay, Gallery One, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
David Burnett Cineplex Odeon The First Ten Years- A Celebration of Contemporary Canadian Art, ISBN 0969383509
Donna Lypchuk Carol Sutton: Eye Of The Vortex, The Silhouette-Grill-Balcony Paintings, cover and feature article, Artpost 33, Summer, 1989
Lypchuk, Donna, Exhibition essay 'A Spanner in The Works - Ethos and Spirituality in Abstract Painting' for show at Oakham House, Ryerson University, by Terrance Sulymko Fine Art, November 1990
Reed Publishing Who's Who in American Art, 1990
Sotheby's Important Canadian Art, Auction & exhibition catalogue, May 31, 1990, Toronto, ON
International Biographical Centre International Who's Who of Intellectuals, 9th edition, Cambridge, England, Spring 1991
R.R. Bowker Company, American Federation of Arts, Database Publishing Group - Art - 1990 -Who's Who in American Art, 1991–92
Joan Murray - 'Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century', Dundurn Press , Toronto, Oxford,
Landfield, Ronnie, NewYorkArtWorld.com, The Whitney Museum Ends the American Century , The American Century: Art and Culture - Part 2, 1950–2000, The Whitney Museum of American Art, September 26, 1999-February 13, 2000, by Ronnie Landfield© 1999
McGowan, Alison C (Editor), Who's Who in American Art-2004
Roald Nasgaard, Abstract Painting in Canada, (soft-back) Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre, ISBN 978-1-55365-226-7
Smithsonian; http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/results/?id=3133
Artcyclopedia for Carol Sutton - http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/sutton_carol.html
The Canadian Visual Arts Information Network or CCCA net http://www.ccca.ca
The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) - Artist/Maker: Sutton, Carol -http://www.pro.rcip-chin.gc.ca/bd-dl/aac-aic-eng.jsp?emu=en.aich:/Proxapp/ws/aich/user/wwwe/Record&upp=0&m=1&w=NATIVE%28%27ARTIST+ph+words+%27%27Carol++Sutton%27%27%27%29&order=native%28%27every+AR%27%29
Union List of Artist Names, Getty Museum - Carol Sutton, http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500102548
New Hall University of Cambridge Art Collection: http://www-art.newhall.cam.ac.uk/gallery/artists/carol-sutton/
Carol Sutton in AskArt.com ; http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx?artist=129409 1973
FANCYE by Composer: David Jaeger and Artist: Carol Sutton & composers: The Canadian Electronic Ensemble or the CEE, Music for Organ and computer synthesized sound, moving sculpture, http://www.carolsutton.net/text/Fancye-Jaeger-Sutton1973.html
Clement Greenberg
Clement Greenberg was an American essayist known mainly as an influential visual art critic closely associated with American Modern art of the mid-20th century...
and is noted for the use of color. Sutton was encouraged by critic Michael Fried whom she met 1n 1986 at Triangle Artist Workshop
Triangle Arts Trust
Triangle Arts Trust is an international arts organization that brings together artists from different countries to explore new ideas and expand the boundaries of their practice...
. Some of Sutton paintings have been related to ontology.
Early life and education
The daughter of Robert William Sutton, a designer and manufacture of marine instruments and Nancy Chester Sustare, artist and homemaker, Carol spent her first six years living in a log cabin high on the sand dunes of Chesapeake Bay overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. She studied at Richmond Professional InstituteVirginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Commonwealth University is a public university located in Richmond, Virginia. It comprises two campuses in the Downtown Richmond area, the product of a merger between the Richmond Professional Institute and the Medical College of Virginia in 1968...
(VCU) in Richmond and later at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro , also known as UNC Greensboro, is a public university in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States and is a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina system. The university offers more than 100 undergraduate, 61 master's and 26...
, where her professors introduced to the work of Morris Louis and Kenneth Noland
Kenneth Noland
Kenneth Noland was an American abstract painter. He was one of the best-known American Color field painters, although in the 1950s he was thought of as an abstract expressionist and in the early 1960s he was thought of as a minimalist painter. Noland helped establish the Washington Color School...
. Sutton met Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters.-Early life:...
by introduction of her professor Jewett Campbell as she related to the space used in his paintings. She later moved to Canada and is married to the sculptor André Fauteux
André Fauteux
André Fauteux is a Canadian artist born in Dunnville, Ontario, Canada on March 15, 1946, who now lives in Toronto, Ontario. Fauteux is a sculptor known for his abstract welded steel sculpture, which relates to Geometric abstraction...
with whom she has two children, Viva-Laura Sutton-Fauteux and Yale Sutton-Fauteux.
Early career
When Sutton was twenty-two, her work entered the Jacob Kainen Collection, of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art with a portfolio of sixteen serigraphs titled 'The Artist As A Young Woman - Picabia'. Will Insley, her professor at UNCG, thought that Sutton’s sculpture used similar materials and had allied working concerns; introduced Sutton to Eva HesseEva Hesse
Eva Hesse , was a German-born American sculptor, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. -Early life:Hesse was born into a family of observant Jews in Hamburg, Germany...
in 1969 in his New York loft. Working on large sculpture in the isolation of her studio in Greensboro, North Carolina Sutton was offered a solo show of these works at The O.K. Harris Gallery, in New York. A move to Canada and the collapse of her marriage prevented her from taking up the offer. It would be eight years later before Sutton would return to New York to show as an artist, this time as a painter not a sculptor. In Canada Sutton produced multiple exhibitions across Canada and showed with the Theo Waddington Galleries Ltd, and later at Gallery One in Toronto. In Toronto, Sutton also did sculpture collaborations with contemporary electronic music composers. In Canada Sutton’s work was encouraged by the critics Clement Greenburg and Karen Wilkin
Karen Wilkin
Karen Wilkin is a New York-based independent curator and art critic specializing in 20th century modernism. Educated at Barnard College and Columbia University, she was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and a Fulbright Scholarship, to Rome...
, and influenced by the artists Anthony Caro
Anthony Caro
Sir Anthony Alfred Caro, OM, CBE is an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' industrial objects.-Background and early life:...
and Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler
Helen Frankenthaler is an American abstract expressionist painter. She is a major contributor to the history of postwar American painting. Having exhibited her work in six decades she has spanned several generations of abstract painters while continuing to produce vital and ever-changing new work...
, all of whom regularly came to her Toronto studio. Fauteux introduced Sutton to Jack Bush
Jack Bush
Jack Bush was a Canadian abstract expressionist painter, born in Toronto, Ontario in 1909 and he died there 24 January 1977...
in 1974 and has been included in a number of exhibitions related to Bush’s influence. In 1977, Sutton had her first Canadian exhibition at the A.C.T. Gallery. In 1978 Sutton held her first New York one-woman show at the William Edward O’Reilly Gallery.In the U.S.A. Sutton's work was noted by critic Kenworth Moffett, the Contemporary Curator of The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, who purchased her work 'Alvertie' for their collection and included her in the André Emmerich
André Emmerich
André Emmerich was an influential German born American gallerist who specialized in the color field school and pre-Columbian art while also taking on artists such as David Hockney and Al Held....
Gallery touring show, The New Generation: A Curator's Choice.
Later career
Sutton is mainly known for her large scale abstract acrylic paintings, which she paints with her canvas, laid directly on the floor. Related to the tradition of Color FieldColor Field
Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. It was inspired by European modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism, while many of its notable early proponents were among the pioneering Abstract Expressionists...
Painting her art has been linked by prominent critics to the art movement called Lyrical Abstraction
Lyrical Abstraction
Lyrical Abstraction is either of two related but distinctly separate trends in Post-war Modernist painting, and a third definition is the usage as a descriptive term. It is a descriptive term characterizing a type of abstract painting related to Abstract Expressionism; in use since the 1940s...
. Her smaller paper works often take on unusual structural forms and have widely extended edges, sometimes cut in wave shapes. In 1987 Sutton was one of the few international artists invited to participate in the Art Triangle Workshop in Barcelona, her third Triangle workshop. Two years later a major Canada Council
Canada Council
The Canada Council for the Arts, commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown Corporation established in 1957 to act as an arts council of the government of Canada, created to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts. It funds Canadian artists and...
Grant allowed her to again travel to Europe to photograph and study ironwork throughout Spain and France. The experience resulted in some of her most powerful paintings, especially a series titled 'THE SPIRIT BALCONY PAINTINGS'. Roald Nasgaard , in his book ‘Abstract Painting in Canada', writes of the artist, "Always a fluid and luscious painter of great gusto, comfortable with intimacy as well as the grand scale.”
Major group exhibitions
1968 Gallery of Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, now called South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art - SECCA' http://www.secca.org/ -The Curator and Director then was Ted Potter: sculpture. Title: 'Five Pink Polyethylene Plastic Bags.1969 "Art on Paper", Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.A., November. Juror was Mr. Richard Bellamy, of New York City.
(2 works, black paper 3' x 5 2/3" rolled, pinned & clipped with paper clips, 1969)
1969 "Montpelier Farm Stable Show of Eight Artists", Landover, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, October ( sculpture of glass titled: 'Global March'
1976 "Olympiad XXI", Montreal, Quebec, (4 paintings)
1976 "Abstractions", Gallery-Straford, Stratford, Ontario, Canada; Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France; and Canada House, London, England
("Untitled :Tropical Series" painting , 1976)
1977 "New Abstract Art", Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada,
1978 "Certain Traditions: Recent British and Canadian Art"
(paintings , "Lockhaven, 1977, Bay Bridge, 1977, and Cove, 1977)
Touring Canada & United Kingdom: Mostyn Gallery, Lhanducho, Wales, City Art Gallery, Aberdeen, Scotland, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, England, Commonwealth Institute, London, England
1978 "Carol Sutton and Thomas Downing", William Edward O'Reilly Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A
1980 "The Staff Collects - An Experiment" - Shell Canada, Harbourfront Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
1980 "Sutton, Saito, and Ross", Salander-O'Reilly Galleries Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A. ( paintings)
1980 "The New Generation: A Curator's Choice by Kenworth Moffett",
Premiere- The Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, New York, September 4 to 27 and then touring Europe in 1981 to;
American Cultural Centre, Paris, France, Amerika House, Berlin, West Germany, Arzore Cooperative, Porto, Portugal, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon, Portugal
1981 to 1982 "The Heritage of Jack Bush", (paintings 'Raleigh Red', 1981 and 'Pink Float', 1979)
In Canada: Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, Koffler Centre for the Arts, Willowdale, Ontario, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Medicine Hat Museum, Medicine Hat, Alberta, Burlington Cultural Centre, Burlington, Ontario, Rodman Hall, St. Catherines, Ontario, Gallery - Stratford,Stratford, Ontario, Sir George Williams University, Montreal, Quebec
1981 Three Person Group Museum Show: "Carol Sutton, Kikuo Saito, and Terrance Keller", Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, ( "Fan Series" -including, 'Titan', 1981, 'Clarion', 1977, and 'Fruition', 1981)
1982 "Color II" , paintings by John Griefen, Darryl Hughto, Carol Sutton, Dan Christensen, Kikuo Saito, Susan Roth, and Clifford Ross, Martha White Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.(paintings - "Fan Series" -, 'Crossroads, 1981, and 'Umbrian Royal, 1982)
1982 "Selected Paintings of Contemporary Abstractionists", paintings by Carol Sutton, Ronnie Landfield, Darryl Hughto, Saito, Zox, Susan Roth, Tammany, Harman, and Francis, (paintings - "Fan Series" -'Clay Roses', 1981, and 'Crystal Brown Royal', 1981)
1985 "The MBA (Boston) Hines Contemporary Art Collection", University Place at Harvard Square, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
1987 "V.I.P..........A Selection of Very Important Painters celebrating their work of the 80's", Gallery One, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 29 to December 17, (paintings by: Stanley Boxer, Joseph Drapell, Fridel Dzubas, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, Doug Haynes, David. Hockney, Katja Jacobs, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Larry Poons, Frank Stella, and Carol Sutton)
1998, -"Abstraction Now", Selected by Karen Wilkin"- , place: Gallery One, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Featuring paintings by: Ann Clarke, Michele Drouin, Katja Jacobs, Harold Feist, Joseph Drapell, Douglas Haynes, Bill Kort, Bobby Tamo, Alice Teichert, and Carol Sutton. Lecture given by Karen Wilkin. Painting included was: 'Salient Balcony', 1990
1999/2000 - 'Abstraction- A Curator's Choice', The Art Gallery of Algoma, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. "Guest curator, Christiane Becker, was born in Cologne, Germany - Becker arrived at a list of five abstract painters: Joseph Drapell; Harold Feist; Paul Fournier; Carol Sutton; and, Jean McEwen.
2003, Grand Re-Opening Saturday April 12, 2003 - The Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge, United Kingdom, http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/ has loaned two paintings, Virginia Greens (1981) and Floral Tops (1986),
2007, The Sam & Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts,, 10 Year Celebration & Art Auction Benefit, New Berlin, NY
2009, Bright Colours, Big Canvas: Jack Bush', at Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, by Alicia Boutilier | Curator of Canadian Historical Art. Includes artists: David Bolduc, Paul Fournier, Milly Ristvedt, Alex Cameron, Dan Solomon, and K.M. Graham and Carol Sutton, with the painting: Mint Julep Nude. 1978
Music commissions
1972 AUTOMATIC DUO by David Jaeger and James Montgomery1973 FANCYE(^ Reference 11) by David Jaeger and Carol Sutton for Organ Toronto, Ontario, Canada and computer synthesized sound, moving sculpture, still sculpture and lights, for New Music Concerts, Concert Hall Organ - Inaugural Concerts, Edward Johnson Building, University of Toronto. Martin Liefhebber drawing of Fancye by Jaeger and Sutton
Painting commissions
1987 THE EYE OF THE OVAL a painting apx. 8 feet by 18 feet for Orlando, Florida, USA Cineplex Odeon Corporation of Sand Lake Seven CinemasSelected public collections
The Smithsonian Museum of American Art or SAAM:as Carol Sutton-MartinThe Museum of Fine Arts Boston
The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art is situated in the Plaça dels Àngels, in El Raval, Ciutat Vella, Barcelona, Spain. The museum opened to the public on November 28, 1995. Its current director is Bartomeu Marí . Previous directors were Daniel Giralt-Miracle , Miguel Molins , Manuel J...
(Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, or MACBA)
The Fitzwilliam Museum of Cambridge, United Kingdom, The New Hall Women's Art Collection
The Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Agnes Etherington Art Centre Kingston, Ontario, Canada http://www.aeac.ca/
Canada Council Art Bank Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Tuna, 1977 and Penny Royal 1977.
Memorial University of Newfoundland Art Gallery Saint Johns, New Brunswick, Canada
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, (AGGV),Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Awards
1963 Blue Ribbon / First Place in Junior Section/ 'Sears-Allstate Tidewater Arts Festival.1966 & 1967 Virginia Museum Fellowship
1967 The Gold Key and Art Achievement Award, Richmond Professional Institute (now Virginia Commonwealth University)
1967 Full Tuition Scholarship, to attend the 'School of Visual Arts' in New York City, New York, U.S.A.
1968, & 1969 Teaching Fellowship, University of North Carolian, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.A.
1969 Receives M.F. A. degree, Masters of Fine Art degree, from University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.A.
1969 CHANCELLORS PURCHASE AWARD, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.A., purchase of large scale sculpture by 'Weatherspoon Art Gallery', Greensboro, N.C.
Ontario Arts Council, Ontario, Canada 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979
CANADA COUNCIL ARTS 'B' BURSARY, Canada Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 1983
CANADA COUNCIL PROJECT TRAVEL COST, for travel to Triangle Artists Workshop, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 1988
CANADA COUNCIL SENIOR ARTS 'A' BURSARY, with travel cost to do photography in Barcelona, Spain, Madrid, Spain and Paris, France
1992
ADOLPH AND ESTHER GOTTLIEB FOUNDATION INC. GRANT, New York, New York, U.S. A.
Selected bibliography
Karen Wilkin Certain Traditions: Recent British and Canadian Art, 1978Karen Wilkin Carol Sutton:,ARTS Magazine, December 1979
Kenworth Moffett The New Generation: A Curator's Choice, exhibition catalogue essay, illustrated, André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Karen Wilkin Selections from The Westburne Collection, The Edmonton Art Gallery, catalogue 1982
James Clark The Problem of Fundamental Ontology, Volume III, Limits Book Company, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Published 1973
Terry Fenton Feature Article: Canadians, Carol Sutton, Update, Volume 3, No. 1, January/February 1982, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
David Burnett & Marilyn Schiff illustrated, Contemporary Canadian Art, Co-published by Hurtig & Art Gallery of Ontario
Walter Darby Bannard- Carol Sutton's New Paintings- The Water Spiral Series, exhibition catalogue essay, Gallery One, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
David Burnett Cineplex Odeon The First Ten Years- A Celebration of Contemporary Canadian Art, ISBN 0969383509
Donna Lypchuk Carol Sutton: Eye Of The Vortex, The Silhouette-Grill-Balcony Paintings, cover and feature article, Artpost 33, Summer, 1989
Lypchuk, Donna, Exhibition essay 'A Spanner in The Works - Ethos and Spirituality in Abstract Painting' for show at Oakham House, Ryerson University, by Terrance Sulymko Fine Art, November 1990
Reed Publishing Who's Who in American Art, 1990
Sotheby's Important Canadian Art, Auction & exhibition catalogue, May 31, 1990, Toronto, ON
International Biographical Centre International Who's Who of Intellectuals, 9th edition, Cambridge, England, Spring 1991
R.R. Bowker Company, American Federation of Arts, Database Publishing Group - Art - 1990 -Who's Who in American Art, 1991–92
Joan Murray - 'Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century', Dundurn Press , Toronto, Oxford,
Landfield, Ronnie, NewYorkArtWorld.com, The Whitney Museum Ends the American Century , The American Century: Art and Culture - Part 2, 1950–2000, The Whitney Museum of American Art, September 26, 1999-February 13, 2000, by Ronnie Landfield© 1999
McGowan, Alison C (Editor), Who's Who in American Art-2004
Roald Nasgaard, Abstract Painting in Canada, (soft-back) Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre, ISBN 978-1-55365-226-7
External links
Artist website; http://www.carolsutton.netSmithsonian; http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/results/?id=3133
Artcyclopedia for Carol Sutton - http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/sutton_carol.html
The Canadian Visual Arts Information Network or CCCA net http://www.ccca.ca
The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) - Artist/Maker: Sutton, Carol -http://www.pro.rcip-chin.gc.ca/bd-dl/aac-aic-eng.jsp?emu=en.aich:/Proxapp/ws/aich/user/wwwe/Record&upp=0&m=1&w=NATIVE%28%27ARTIST+ph+words+%27%27Carol++Sutton%27%27%27%29&order=native%28%27every+AR%27%29
Union List of Artist Names, Getty Museum - Carol Sutton, http://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500102548
New Hall University of Cambridge Art Collection: http://www-art.newhall.cam.ac.uk/gallery/artists/carol-sutton/
Carol Sutton in AskArt.com ; http://www.askart.com/AskART/artists/biography.aspx?artist=129409 1973
FANCYE by Composer: David Jaeger and Artist: Carol Sutton & composers: The Canadian Electronic Ensemble or the CEE, Music for Organ and computer synthesized sound, moving sculpture, http://www.carolsutton.net/text/Fancye-Jaeger-Sutton1973.html