PERFECTLY CONSUMED: GALLERY OPENING RECEPTION

Join us at Crossroads Hotel on May 30th from 7pm-9pm to celebrate the opening of Patty Carroll’s exhibition, Perfectly Consumed. No RSVP required.

Step into the satirical world of Patty Carroll, where humor draws us into the complexities of a woman’s relationship with her home. In Carroll’s staged interiors-lush with pattern, saturated with color-domestic space is an overwhelming force. Furniture, wallpaper, and household objects take on lives of their own, as comfort tips into excess. In these surreal dreamscapes, identity dissolves into décor and the boundaries between self and surroundings blur.

At the heart of the exhibition is an installation featuring three photographs that shift the focus from being in a home to being consumed by it. Women-concealed beneath draped fabrics, buried in objects-reveal how the environments we create can begin to engulf us. These figures are shaped by tradition, the dreams we chase, and the expectations we continue to reinforce.

Themes of eating and drinking become metaphors for indulgence, aspiration, and the labor required to sustain a vision. Beneath the polished surface of “having it all” lies the exhaustion of discipline, sacrifice, and constant work.

Carroll’s work riffs on the historical ideal of the housewife, it speaks to the pressures women still place on themselves. Once shaped by external expectations, the home has become a curated extension of identity-transformed into a brand where aesthetics equate to self-worth. The pursuit of perfection has evolved-only now, we are both the architects and the enforcers of the ideal.

Perfectly Consumed is curated and organized by Tiffany Meesha Thompson, EMBA, Executive Director of Petrichor Projects.