HOME: Photographs, Prints and Sculpture by Caren Stansell
Benson Galleries exhibition
Event Types: Visual Arts
Feb 17, 2025 9:00 AM — Feb 28, 2025 2:00 PM
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Benson Campus Galleries Greenville Technical College
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Continuing with the spring Benson Galleries exhibition theme of current landscapes is HOME by Caren Stansell, printmaker, photographer, sculptor, and new full-time instructor at Greenville Technical College in Visual Arts. HOME is Caren’s personal expansion of the definitions of home from her childhood dwelling place at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains in South Carolina to its surrounding woods and waterways. With clear eyed precision, she scolds our consumer culture’s producton of waste through the proliferation of garbage in the landscape. She mournes the neglect of once vibrant buildings.
Though Caren herself has not moved away, she has watched her home landscape move on or maybe devolve. She discusses the waste and trash generated by our consumer culture as a form of destruction of this landscape. Both are polluting our local home here in the Upstate. She states, “I am interested in what we choose to leave behind and how we connect our identity to these places.” Her subjects are crumbling buildings and informal trash heaps presented through fascinating kaleidoscopic images that seem to continue infinently like the concentric ripples in water begun with a drop. Beside pushing the definition of home, she also dissolves the boundaries of printmaking, photography, and sculpture.
Before joining the full-time faculty at GTC, Caren has taught design, drawing, photography, printmaking, and ceramics studio classes, as well as art history at GTC and Lander University. She is a Converse College graduate and received her MFA from Clemson University. She was included in the Atlanta Print Biennial. Her work has been exhibited throughout the Southeast and in publications like CREATIVE QUARTERLY. Recently she exhibited in Confluence: International Print Exchange, a traveling group exhibition in Taiwan. Caren states in her bio that “Her ambition is to share her art with as many individuals as possible.”
