| Carrie Ann Baade | |
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| Birth name | Carrie Ann Jones |
| Born | February 18th, 1974 New Orleans, LA |
| Nationality | American |
| Field | Painting and Drawing |
| Training | Classical Realism |
| Movement | Pop Surrealism, Visionary |
| Works | The Involuntary Thoughts of Lady Caroline Dubois (2005),The Perilous Compassion of the Honey Queen (2009),Queen Bitch (2009), Happy Whore of Babylon and the Anti-Christ (True Love on the Eve of the Apocalypse (2008), Lady of Tiger (2010), Joy and Sorrow (2011) |
| Awards | Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Individual Artist Fellowship, the Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowship for Established Artist, and a nomination for the prestigious United States Artist Fellowship. |
| Website | http://www.carrieannbaade.com |
Carrie Ann Baade (born 18 February 1974) is a painter based in Tallahassee, FL where she is an Assistant Professor in the Fine Arts Department at Florida State University[1]
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Baade was born in New Orleans but spent the majority of her early years in a small town in central Colorado where she graduated from high school. She attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, graduating with her BFA in 1997. During that period she spent a year in Italy studying the techniques of the old masters at the Florence Academy of Art. In 2003 she earned her MFA from the University of Delaware.[1]
Baade's paintings are oil works blending dense, imaginative contemporary and classic symbology with luminescent color, often featuring themes of mortality, sexuality, personal transformation, and the darker side of human nature. She has been associated with the contemporary surreal movement, though her work treats this in an academic manner that rewards detailed study. "Carrie Ann Baade’s autobiographical parables combine fragments of Renaissance and Baroque religious paintings, resulting in surreal landscapes inhabited by exotic flora, fauna, and figures."[2]
2003 to 2004: The Secret Lives of Portraits - "This is an ongoing series of BIZARRE INDIVIDUALS...."[3]
2004-2005: Wanted: Night Gardener - The title was inspired by a newspaper want ad. Baade paints at night and as she says, "I feed on the dreams of the sleeping and reveal a world I design for the waking."[4]
2006 to 2008: Virtues and Vices - This series sprung from the chosen materials, egg tempera and gold leaf. Using the medieval techniques of icon painters, she found herself drawn toward Catholic iconography which she adapted to her own ends. She challenged herself to balance the familiarity of agonies and ecstasies with the lighter virtues of mercy and chastity while avoiding the pitfall of the insipid.[5]
2008 to 2010: Intemperance - Extremes of behavior, those that one might strive to keep private in polite society, are served as catharsis.[6]
2010 to 2011: Tales of Passion and Woe
Carrie Ann has been nominated for the United States Artists Fellowship and awarded the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Individual Artist Fellowship, the Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowship for Established Artists, and many more.[1]
Her paintings have been featured in various narrative art exhibitions including: In Canon at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art,[2] Suggestivism at Grand Central Art Center in Santa Monica,[7] and Another Roadside Attraction at ISE Cultural Foundation in New York City.[8] In 2007 she was among a group of three artists who became the first Americans ever to exhibit at the Ningbo Museum of Art, one of the largest provincial museums in China, located outside of Shanghai. The director of the Ningbo Museum called them "the Mayflowers" for their contributions as cultural ambassadors.[9]
Baade has exhibited in group shows alongside the likes of H. R. Giger, Chet Zar, Robert Williams, Mark Ryden, Glenn Barr, Elizabeth McGrath, Mark Mothersbaugh, Marion Peck, Aaron Smith, Eric White, Gail Potocki, Daniel Martin Diaz, Laurie Lipton, Shag, Tim Biskup, Judith Schaecter, Joe Sorren, Chris Mars, Jessica Joslin, Gary Baseman, the Clayton Brothers, Kris Kuksi Shawn Barber, Scott G. Brooks, Travis Louie, Elizabeth McGrath, Michael Hussar, Esao Andrews, Molly Crabapple, Greg Simkins, Christopher Ulrich, David Stoupakis, Julie Heffernan, Laurie Hogin, Tina Imel, Ron English, Christian Rex van Minnen, Viktor Safonkin, Peter Gric, Heidi Tallifer, Kris Lewis, Femke Hiemstra, Audrey Kawasaki, Jeff Soto, Madeline von Foerster, Richard Kirk, and Nicola Verlato[2][7][8][10]
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