Carol Prusa

Chicago native, Carol Prusa, lives and works in Boca Raton, FL. She received her M.F.A. degree in painting from Drake University, and is a Professor of painting and drawing at the Florida Atlantic University. Known for her contemporary use of silverpoint, Prusa creates meticulous and labor-intensive drawings that employ the use of illusion on three-dimensional dome and spherical forms. Drawing from her background in biocommunications and a deep interest in science, her work references imagery and design from metaphysics, geometry, nature and anatomy.

Prusa’s work had been extensively exhibited at such museums as Kentler International Drawing Space, NY; the Lakatamia Municipalia, Nicosia, Cyprus; the Museum of Contemporary Art, MS; and the Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. Her work resides in multiple permanent collections, and she had been awarded several visual arts fellowships from the South Florida Cultural Consortium, the State of Florida and the Howard Foundation through Brown University.