Mary Ellen Carroll: Monograph

Mary Ellen Carroll: Monograph

This monograph is designed to reflect the conceptual system by which Mary Ellen Carroll makes art. Its chapters bear the titles of sixteen of the 209 categories that Carroll has used since 1988 to organize a card catalog index of her ideas and potential works. Each subject in the catalog receives a unique index card that may contain notes, research, and/or instructions for the execution and development of specific works related to that subject. The cards may be added to or altered at anytime.

This monograph's buff-colored pages, which appear at the beginning of each chapter, show transcriptions of the cards that Carroll has created for the selected subjects: Causes, Place, Mistakes and so on. Artworks that appear within a chapter have been developed and executed with respect to that chapter's heading.

The works in that appear in this book span a twenty-five-year period from 1983 to 2008.