Portrait in the studio, December 2023.
Biography
carrie R (b. 1990, New Jersey) is a Philadelphia-based artist working in the mediums of sculpture and drawing. carrie received her BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University where she received a James O. Dumont Travel Grant Award. She has exhibited recently with Good Mother Gallery (Los Angeles), Cherry Street Pier at Delaware River Waterfront (Philadelphia), The Clay Studio (Phil.), 5-50 Gallery (NYC), Field of Play (NYC), Commonweal (Phil.), and Blah Blah Gallery (Phil.), as well as Below Grand (NYC) and Paradice Palase. She participated in the 2023 SPRING/BREAK Art Fair with 5-50 Gallery, and her work has been featured in Two Coats of Paint, Mister Magazine, Suboart Magazine, Munchies Art Club Magazine, and O FLUXO.
About the work
carrie’s recent work includes free-standing and wall-based sculptures made in aqua-resin with embedded, blended pigments and rough applications of oil color. carrie’s work references heightened emotional reactions, freak accidents, and solitary moments—all which occupy a psychological space that is a little undefinable. Often pointy, curvy, and biomorphic, these forms combine fear, curiosity, and exaggeration while expressing a sensitive relationship to gravity.
Contact
Please send general inquiries and requests for available work via e-mail to: carrie@carrie.studio.
You can join my mailing list for occasional invitations and studio updates.
@crudddd on instagram.
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TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024
All Things Go, with Matt Coombs, Information Space, Philadelphia, PA
Fortress, with Saskia Fleishman, Cherry Street Pier, curated by Libby Rosa, Philadelphia, PA
2023
Superterrestrial Garden, with Alaina Kalbfell, Blah Blah Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2019
Carrie & Morgan, 529 Bangs, Asbury Park, NJ
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Bumper Crop, curated by Matt Logsdon, Field of Play, NYC
Plantasia, Commonweal Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Small Favors, The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Soho House, LA Art Week, Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Luminous Realms, Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2023
GLOOP, SPRING/BREAK Art Fair, curated by 5-50 Gallery, NYC
Inimitable, curated by Casey Jex Smith, Project Gallery V, NYC
CMND/CTRL, Heiress Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
Superbird, curated by Lauren Hirshfield, Paradice Palace, NYC/Online
2022
Beam Me Up, curated by Lauren Hirshfield, 5-50 Gallery, NYC
#1 Artsin Square Online Exhibition, Artsin Square, Online
2021
Apparitions, Paradice Palase, Brooklyn, NY
In-Between the Flurry, curated by Lauren Fejarang, Below Grand, NYC
Summer Juried Show, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
AFTERLIGHT Online, Field Projects Gallery, NYC/Online
File Save/Sift Search, AUTOMAT, Philadelphia, PA
AWARDS & GRANTS
2024
Illuminate the Arts Grant, Creative Philadelphia, City Council Philadelphia
2017
Pollination Project Seed Grant
Common Field Travel Scholarship
2014
ArtSlant Showcase Winner, 3rd Place
2013
James O. Dumont Travel Grant Award
2012
Mason Gross Gallery Award
EDUCATION
2013
BFA – Visual Arts, Sculpture, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
SELECT PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
2024
Brennan, Michael, “A garden grows – on AstroTurf – in Gowanus”, Two Coats of Paint, October 2024
“carrie R: Sculpting Emotions And Narratives In Aqua-Resin”, Munchies Art Club Magazine, January 2024
Suboart Magazine, January 2024
2023
“Superterrestrial Garden”, O FLUXO, December 2023
Rubio, Maya, “Step Inside Paradice Palase”, Mister Magazine, November 2023
2022
Interview with 5-50 Gallery, November 2022
2021
“In-Between the Flurry at Below Grand”, Art Viewer, September 2021
“In-Between the Flurry”, O FLUXO, September 2021
2019
Gladden, Michelle, “Carrie & Morgan Exhibit at 529 Bangs”, Asbury Park Sun, July 2019
2017
Nessel, Ariel, “14 Ways to Transform a Community”, HuffPost, October 2017
Gladden, Michelle, “N.A.S. Opens on Bangs Avenue”, Asbury Park Sun, May 2017
Anania, Billie, “Asbury Park art collective premieres first exhibition”, Asbury Park Press, May 2017
PUBLICATIONS AS AUTHOR
2017
“Robert Melee: Semi-Quasi Bower Recreational”, Exhibition Catalogue, Beeler Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design
2014
“Rate My Artist Residency: Money for Artists”, NY Arts Magazine, Online
2013
“A Glimpse Into Contemporary Dance”, NY Arts Magazine, Feature, Vol 20, N.4
“Matthew Brannon: In Italy It’s Called..”, NY Arts Magazine, Book Reviews, Vol 20, N.4
“Giuseppe Gabellone”, NY Arts Magazine, Book Reviews, Vol 20, N.4
“Vessels at the Hort”, NY Arts Magazine, Exhibition Preview, Online