Caro Nilsson has a professional background in architecture, but the Salt Lake City artist embraced art full-time after a painting residency in early 2021. Painting murals — a process of collaborating with the built environment — seemed a logical marriage of the two practices. In 2022, she completed […]
Several decades ago the words “A stone, a leaf, an unfound door” opened Thomas Wolfe’s novel Look Homeward, Angel , suggesting that a rock and a leaf had as much importance as a door — or that a secret and invaluable door or truth could only be found, […]
Caro Nilsson’s dream-like, impressionistic landscapes pull the viewer into a specific place that feels outside of time. Gestural marks eddy beneath swaths of color-shift or tactile embroidery thread. Her paintings straddle the line between real and imaginary- understanding the notion that everything is always both. Caro paints primarily […]
