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Joy and Sorrow
12" tondo, oil on copper, 2011
Carrie Ann Baade
The Vanitas of the Honey Bee, 6 of 6
A Caterpillar Explains the Little Death
8" x 10", oil on panel, 2009
Carrie Ann Baade is an internationally exhibiting artist
whose surreal oil paintings are rich with allegorical
meta-narratives inspired by literature and art history.
She has been awarded the 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. Exhibiting widely with the Pop Surrealists
and her paintings have been featured in Metamorphosis,
a survey of the top, contemporary Visionary Surrealists
and will be included in the upcoming exhibit
Suggestivism curated by Nathan Spoor, at the Grand
Central Art Center in California.
Baade received her Masters in Painting from the University of Delaware where she
expanded her knowledge of materials and techniques under the guidance professors of
art conservation. She received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
that included one year of study at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy. Her works has
been reviewed and the subject of features in the NY ARTS Magazine, the Philadelphia
Inquirer, Austin Chronicle, the Colorado Springs Independent, the Albuquerque
Journal, and Philadelphia Today.
The Happy Whore of Babylon and the Antichrist
(True Love on the Eve of the Apocalypse)
12" x 16", oil on panel, 2008
Recent solo exhibitions include: the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, the
Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia, Billy Shire Fine Arts in Los Angeles, and the Ningbo
Art Museum in China. Currently, Carrie is an Assistant Professor of Painting and
Drawing at Florida State University accompanied by her polydactyl cat.
The Involuntary Thoughts of Lady Caroline Dubois
14" x 20", oil on panel, 2005
The Temptation of the Penitent Medusa
12" x 18", oil on panel, 2010
Explaining Death to a Rabbit
24" x 30", oil on panel, 2011
Lady or Tiger
18" x 24", oil on panel, 2009