Carol Wax

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Full Name	Carol Wax
Occupation	Art Historian
Date Of Birth	Jun 17, 1953(1953-06-17)
Age	71
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Gemini

Carol Wax Biography

Carol Wax is one of the most popular and richest Art Historian who was born on June 17, 1953 in New York, United States. Carol Wax was born June 17, 1953 in New York City. In 1971, she graduated Mount Vernon High School. After spending a year at Manhattan School of Music she took flute master classes at Jean-Pierre Rampal’s International Summer School in Nice, France. In 1975, she earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music. She majored in flute playing. She continued her professional music career until 1980.

Harry N. Abrams (in America) and Thames & Hudson, in the U.K. published her research results in The Mezzotint: History and Technique in 1990. Abrams reissued the soft-cover edition of the book in 1996. Wax took all technical illustrations and flatwork for the volume. She also produced the line drawings. Wax covered the history of mezzotint and detailed how they were used as a guide to contemporary artists. Winterthur Portfolio’s lengthy review noted that it was the “first comprehensive mezzotint study…and the most important discussion of the topic” since an 1884 study. Her work was described as “a technician’s eye for detail, an artist’s sensibility to the nuances and a historian’s curiosity in cause and effect”. It was a praise for her use of obscure German publications from 1771-1889 to expand on historical accounts. She also investigated the effects of technological advances such as steel plates on artist’s technique, paper types and ink on the images. Writing in Print Quarterly, Ellen D’Oench said that: “the appearance of Carol Wax’s book is an important event…not before now have we had access to an exhaustive treatment of mezzotint’s history and process, enriched by copious and superb reproductions….Wax, a mezzotint artist herself, handles with skill a vast amount of information….She excels in her observations about individual prints…and in her selection of reproductions….Wax has a keen eye for the particulars and a broad knowledge of the subject….This is a triumph of word and image in the service of explication.”

Wax has executed several commissions for mezzotint editions from Cradle Oak Press at Bradley University, in Peoria, Illinois (1994), Stone and Press Gallery (1994), the Albany Print Club (2002), the Matrix Program at the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas (2003), Indiana University Southeast in New Albany, Indiana (2005), and the Print Club of Rochester, New York (2008).

Wax found that her increased technical confidence expanded the scale and complexity of her imagery. Influenced in part by the work of Philip Pearlstein, she produced more refined and intricate treatments of light and shadow, more sophisticated explorations of the ways that light and shadow create the illusions of volume and depth, and more complex layering of pictorial elements. In the years that followed, she received over thirty-five prizes in national and international exhibitions. In 1994 she received the Louise Nevelson Award for Excellence in Printmaking from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Wax began to explore historical mezzotint engraving techniques in the mid- 1980s. She continued to be a printmaker and did her own research. Although mezzotint was originally developed to copy oil paintings, Wax’s research revealed old techniques that could be used in contemporary art. In 1986, she was a resident at the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire. She also received an Artist’s Fellowship Grant in 1987 from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Wax performed technical experiments based upon her historical research. For a few years, she spent more time researching and writing than producing art.

Carol Wax Net Worth

Carol Wax is one of the richest Art Historian from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Carol Wax 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Carol Wax, born June 17, 1953, is an American artist and author. The New York Times referred to her as a “virtuoso printer and art historian”, for her mezzotint work and her writings about the history and techniques of this medium.

She took printmaking classes at Lake Placid School of Art in 1976 and 1975, and then continued her studies at Pratt Graphics Center in New York City from 1976 to 1982. There she made lithographs as well as mezzotint engraving. In 1986-1987, she had her first solo museum exhibit at the Wichita Art Museum.

Wax curated exhibitions at Heuser Art Center Gallery, Bradley University, in 1994 with John Heintsman and the New Orleans Museum of Art in 1996 with Earl Retif.

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In 2006, the Herakleidon Art Museum in Athens, Greece, presented a solo show of her work. Titled “Shadowplay,” it included every edition Wax had published, including her early lithographs along with many state proofs, color separation proofs, plates, preparatory sketches, and related drawings and pastels. The Herakleidon also published Carol Wax, Catalogue Raisonné/Prints, 1975-2005 in 2006 to document her first thirty years as a printmaker. One reviewer noted that “The reader will readily be captivated by Wax’s onomatomania and obsession with man-powered mechanical objects that click, clatter or ring like her signature typewriters and sewing machines.” The Herakleidon mounted another exhibition of her work, “Dance of Shadows,” in 2011.

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In 2009, she received an Individual Support Grant from the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation.