Carole Silverstein is a Los Angeles based artist who has exhibited in galleries and alternative venues throughout the US, including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland, and San Francisco. In 2015 she showed at the 56th Venice Biennale in an exhibit entitled “We Must Risk Delight: 20 Artists from Los Angeles” at the Magazzino del Sale, Venice Italy. Additionally, her work was featured in an exhibit which traveled to London, Paris, Berlin, Manila, Capetown, and Johannesburg. She received her MFA from Queens College, CUNY and her BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, with additional study at the International School of Art in Montecastello di Vibio, Italy.

In 2000, a book collaboration of her collages and the poetry of Jim Henderson was published entitled “Clearly These Clouds”. Her artworks are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Citibank, Art in US Embassies (US Embassy Djibouti), Art for Healing, The Salser Collection, and numerous private collections. She lives with her husband and son in Los Angeles.

Books mentioned in the interview are Rebecca Solnit’s Orwell’s Roses and Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now.