Hi! I'm Carolyn, and I Have an Art Obsession
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Carolyn Guerra received her B. A. degree in Art and English at Alverno College in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Carolyn continued her studies touring European museums and galleries and as a student of the Art Institute of Chicago where she studied drawing, painting, and printmaking.
She taught painting, sculpture, and printmaking at the high school and university level, as well as in her own studio in Barrington, Illinois.
She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Northwestern University where her mentors were Ed Paschke in painting, Martin Levine in printmaking, Elaine King in support and direction and Leland Rohloff in mind-expanding creativity.
Carolyn is a multi-media artist who is continuously discovering and creating. Currently her sculptural preoccupation is both in bronze and concrete sculptures enhanced with her own ceramic creations or found glass objects. The paradoxical themes of togetherness and opposition reoccur as in her earlier work. The contrasts manifest themselves both in the subject matter of the works and in her choices of materials; the juxtaposition of both smooth and excessive detailed textures in her bronze sculptures and the rough, matte finish of the concrete and the smooth, glossy surface of glass or glazed ceramic creations in her concrete sculptures.
Incline Village Sculptor, Carolyn Guerra, celebrated the opening of her exhibit, Adventures in Imagination, on August 5, 2017 at The Weinstein Gallery in Union Square, San Francisco. The Emptiness Series consists of twelve original sculptures.
Rowland Weinstein and Carolyn Guerra at Weinstein Gallery opening
“Carolyn's themed series about "Emptiness" and expressing those emotions happen to be magnificent. Turning an emotion into a visualized art piece is a talent too few three dimensional artists behold. Carolyn has an outstanding way of communicating those feelings and emotions into a universal image that we can all read and relate. Her colors can be monochromatic or filled with color. And, they can be privately interpreted. To me, Lake Tahoe and the surrounding area is a gift from the gods, serene and beautiful giving forth those things that we need to sustain ourselves. For me the woman at the top represents the Goddess of Lake Tahoe as she calmly watches over the area with the "blue bird of happiness" resting patiently on her arm. How does this art work affect you?”
Dorine Gross, MFA