About the Artist:
Having had the pleasure of growing up in Southern California, hot summers and warm glowing colors forever romanticized their way into Carrie's sensibilities.
They have always appeared in her work.
Carrie graduated with distinction, in the fall of 1997 from Art Center College of Design, soon taking a position as an artist
apprentice with famous Impressionist Aldo Luongo. A short year later, Aldo sponsored her to develop a body of her own work.
Carrie's first opening was in coastal Cambria, California in 1999, and a success. For the next decade, Carrie traveled the world,
showing exquisitely developed oil paintings and charcoal drawings. Her admiration for figure and form, juxtaposed with
observations of light and shadow, and steeped in a fascination with composition materialized in hundreds of paintings.
Currently, Carrie celebrates the publication of the book "After Hours", which contains plates of many of these pieces.
She has become a collector of modern works, has taken up a hobby of designing and building furniture, and is an ardent advocate
of architectural preservation. She volunteers at The Institute for Survival Through Design and works with Dion Neutra on art
projects, book readings, and public relations. When she's not painting, of course!
Statement of the Artist:
I think that it's important for me to realize that things are coming together -- skill, observation, and consideration.
As an artist, I pursue what will give me the greatest satisfaction and joy, a communication filled with discovery and triumph.
What's in a medium? What's in a subject matter, or style? I am currently studying the concept of beauty, and why we find something
so. What is preconceived, and what can be edited? I always knew, and now fully realize that function always takes a form, not as a
conquest but as a lover. I appreciate the opportunity to exhibit this intimate process itself as the art.
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