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The Involuntary Thoughts of Carrie Ann Baade

BIOGRAPHY

"My paintings are surreal portraits that explore identity and the darker side of the human condition." - Carrie Ann Baade

The edgy and intellectual paintings of Carrie Ann Baade are quickly gaining recognition across the United States and abroad. Dubbed “Imaginative Realism,” these paintings are cut from the pages of art history and layered into a trompe l'oeil surrealism. Often traveling around the globe in search of forgotten paintings to quote and interpret, her works manifest into an entirely original vision rich with humor.

Born in a steamboat that was pulled ashore and converted into a house, Carrie first became conscious in New Orleans and fell in love with the richness and magic created by the confluence of cultures. Too soon her family moved to Colorado, where the vastness of a rural upbringing made bones, sticks, and rocks her playmates; thus requiring the development of a fecund imagination.

After a very long time interviewing, Carrie is a real PROFESSOR of painting and drawing at FSU in Tallahassee. Once an aspiring professor, she has held adjunct teaching positions at Washington College, the University of Delaware, Cecil County Community College, and Delaware College of Art and Design. She received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1997 and a Masters in Painting from the University of Delaware in 2003. Currently, Carrie is a full time painter in Philadelphia accompanied by her singing, polydactyl cat.


ARTIST STATEMENT:

My imaginative, realist paintings are newly spun meta-narratives informed by religion and mythology. Gods, rulers, and demons are metaphors for the complexity of the human condition. These are allegorical cautionary tales of love and power, and corrupted icons for modern society. My ideas start with the fanciful and idealized world of the mind yet, to begin, I start with something is held in hand. A collage is created from cut up photographs and pictures including historical paintings. Looking at this collage, I paint in a trompe l’oeil manner showing the multiple layers with cut edges which suggest the complexity of individual’s psychologies – their masks and their hidden secrets. In mismatched layering of eyes, influenced by Picasso’s cubism, or the citation use of eyes from Our Lady of Sorrow; my interest in reviving history painting is in the subject but also in the making. Methods informed by studying with art conservators and looking at the old masters inform my work. The materials and techniques used revitalize the archaic traditions of both painting oil on copper, and egg tempera panel painting with gold leaf. As a contemporary artist, I am passionate about the preservation and continued use of art’s past.

CARRIE ANN BAADE

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