carrie R
carrie R is a Philadelphia-based artist who works in sculpture, drawing, and digital media. carrie received her BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and is the recipient of a Common Field Travel Scholarship and a James O. Dumont Travel Grant Award. Most recently she has exhibited with 5-50 Gallery, Below Grand, and Paradice Palase.
carrie’s recent works include sculptures made in hydrostone, treated with quick applications of pigment, markers, and oil bars, as well as drawings in marker and digital mediums that mimic this fast-paced energy through meticulous, built-up layers of thin and pixelated lines and scribbles. These works are vague expressions of the artist as obscure forms, appearing surreal and plant-like. Influenced by psychological fiction and domestic environments—both indoor and outdoor, and referencing heightened emotional reactions to personal histories from freak accidents to solitary moments, these objects sit as relics of an imagined but emotionally real environment, containing thematic elements of fear, solitude, self-preservation, and beauty.