Carrie Ann Baade is an internationally exhibiting artist whose surreal oil paintings are rich with allegorical meta-narratives inspired by literature and art history. 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 up coming exhibit, Suggestivism curated by Nathan Spoor, at the Grand Central Art Center in California. 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. 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. Her work is represented by Pop Gallery in Santa Fe .

Currently, Carrie is an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Florida State University accompanied by her polydactyl cat. View more of her art at: www.carrieannbaade.com

Carrie was born in Natchitoches, Louisiana inside a house made from a riverboat that had caught fire and was brought ashore. Her earliest memories and fondest recollections are of living in New Orleans, which is delightfully magical place to be a child. Her parents then moved to a rural and arid region of Colorado, where there were no children within walking distance of her house. Playing with the bones from dead horses and fallen branches, she attempted to make a barren world something exciting. It was here that she spent days practicing her drawing and painting, to the best of her ability, looking at books of great art from far off lands. As childhood wore off, she was soon fed up with this incomprehensibly boring place that others found beautiful. Saving up her money, she traveled around the world exploring art museums and pondering ancient civilizations. After much eye gorging on five continents, she discovered that she had no talent for foreign language and returned home.

The problem now was what to paint. Looking towards the old masters for direction, Carrie spent many years experimenting and brooding over what kind of paintings she should create. Her frustration came from a suspicion, that all the great paintings seemed to have been painted already; and there might be nothing new for her to contribute. With rage and dissatisfaction, she attacked her library of art books, mercilessly tearing off their spines, and releasing the pages from their bindings. Out of this sea of pictured paper, she used her scissors to up the images of paintings creating her own out of the fragments. Pleased with her creation, she busied herself with repainting these collaged articles into new masterpieces. In the end, she discovered that her own work was far more entertaining than the old paintings they came from.

Curriculum Vitae
Carrie Ann Baade

Current Position:
Assistant Professor of Fine Art
College of fine art, Theater, and Dance
Florida State University

Education

MFA 2003 University of Delaware
BFA 1997 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago?

Solo Exhibitions

2010 Tales of Passion and Woe, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Intemperance, Billy Shire Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Kitchen's Ink, Denver, CO
2007 Virtues and Vices, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE

Ningbo Museum of Art, Ningbo, China

2006 Involuntary Thoughts, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Blue Streak Gallery, Wilmington, DE

Trans-conscious Visions, Pankratz Gallery, Monument, CO

2005 Wanted Night Gardener, Mezzanine Gallery, Wilmington, DE

The Secret Lives of Portraits, Washington College, Chestertown, MD

2004 Salon of the Chimera, Cecil County Community College, Rising Sun, MD

Selected Group Shows

2011 Suggestivism, curated by Greg Escalante and Nathan Spoor, Grand Central Art Center, Santa
Monica, CA
Florence Biennale, Fortezza da Basso, Firenze, Italy
2010 Draw, curated by Curse Mackey and Eric Foss, Museo de la Cuidad de Mexico, Mexico
Lead Poisoning, curated by Jason D'Aquino, Last Rites, New York, NY

Hunt&Gather, curated by Tina Ziegler, Think Space Gallery, Culver City, CA

3rd Annual Femme Sugar Coated Strange, Pop Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Metamorphosis: International Surreal Art Collective, curated by Jon Beinart, Copro Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Award Winners X, curated by Ryan Grover, Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE

Useful&Beautiful: The Transatlantic Arts of William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites, curated by Margaret Winslow, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE

Low Brow Tarot Show, curated by Aunia Kahn, La Luz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2009 In Your Dreams, curated by Edward Sullivan of NYU, Pen and Brush Society, New York, NY

Super School, curated by Lola, Copro Nason, Santa Monica, CA

Fata Morgana, curated by Pam Grossman, Debora Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Sugar Coated Strange, Pop Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Faculty Exhibition, Florida State Museum, FL

2008 Aqua Art Fair, Billy Shire, Miami, FL
Subversion, Pop Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

Contempt Anniversary Show, NY

13th Hour, Last Rites, New York, NY

Art Encounter 200, Juror: Brian Dursum, The von Liebig Art Center,

Naples Florida

Unsung and Undead, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL

Flight of Fancy, Crybaby Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ

Four Riders, Pale Horse Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL

Deep Pop: a survey of Pop Surrealism, curated by Andrew Michael Ford, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY

2007 Bridge Art Fair: Chicago, London, and Miami, Billy Shire Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

"Talking Board Show," Copro Nason Galley, Santa Monica, CA

Objective Reality, Harold Golen Gallery, Miami, FL

New Talent, Billy Shire Fine Art, Culver City, CA

ISM: Untitled Love Project Phases 2/3, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, CA

Faculty Exhibition, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

Draw, curated by Eric Foss, traveling exhibit: New York, Austin, London, and Tokyo

Kitschen Sync, La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Broken Hearts, Strychnin Gallery, New York, NY

2006 Undertow 2, curated by Alix Sloan, Roq La Rue, Seattle, WA

Fresh Meat, Roq La Rue, Seattle, WA

Cannibal Flower, Copro Nason Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Undertow, curated by Alix Sloan, Metalstone Gallery, New York, NY

Animals in Art, Curated by Susan Isaacs, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE

Delaware Women's Conference Exhibition, Biggs Museum, Dover, DE

Scary Night, KMFK Gallery, New York, NY

Arcanum, Strychnin Gallery, New York, NY, 2005

DDA Award Winners, Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE

2004 US Artists: American Fine Art Show, 33rd Street Armory, Philadelphia, PA

New Talent Show, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2003 MFA Exhibition, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE

Graduate Thesis Exhibition, University Gallery, Newark, DE

2002 12th Annual Emerging Artists, City Gallery, Baltimore, MD

New Blood, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

2001 7th Annual Juried Exhibition, Cecil County Arts Council, Elkton, MD

Symbiotic Teleology, Newark Arts Alliance, Newark, DE

Awards and Grants
2009 Art and Humanities Research Enhancement Grant (AHPEG)
Committee on Faculty Research Support (COFRS)
2008 First Year Assistant Professor Award (FYAP)
2007 Nominated for the United States Artists Award
2005 Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowship for Established Artist in Painting
2004 Delaware Division of the Arts Honorable Mention for Emerging Artist in Painting
2003 Teaching Excellence Award Nominee, University of Delaware
2002 U of D Travel Grant: Anderson Ranch, Aspen, CO (Studied w/ Julie Heffernan)
2001-02 Calloway Magness Fellowship and Full Teaching Assistantship
1992 Palmer Lake Art Group Scholarship