 2005
INDIVIDUAL ARTIST FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT
Carrie Ann Baade
Newark
Established Professional: Visual Arts - Painting
"Temptation Alien," oil on panel |
Carrie Ann Baade is adjunct art instructor at Cecil County Community
College in Northeast, Md. Under the auspices of the college, she also teaches
a college-level studio art course for high school students. Since 1996, her
work has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the mid-Atlantic
region and elsewhere. She is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago and earned her master's degree in painting from the University of
Delaware. Her work will be on exhibit in the Mezzanine Gallery of the Carvel
State Building in Wilmington in May.
Nearly every subject in my paintings receives a new set of eyes. The new
eyes may serve as a mask, thus providing the opportunity to role play, hide,
or act out. Painting the haplessly layered scraps with awkwardly cut edges
stimulates the curiosity of the viewer to find out the hidden truth and
imagine what possibilities might lie beneath.
Continuing my pursuit of identity, the series [to be exhibited] is
predominantly self-portraits exploring the themes of the forbidden, the
disturbed, and the peculiarly heroic. The ruse devised in these paintings is
dependant upon the trompe-l'oeil craftsmanship. The raised and/or textured
surfaces seduce the eye and the hand, compelling the viewer to question what
lies beneath. Through collage, layers of meaning are built into complex
allegories or meta-narratives.
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