About Carrie Ann Baade
Carrie Ann Baade (born February 18, 1974) is an American painter whose work has been described by Curator of Contemporary Art Margaret Winslow as "autobiographical parables combin(ing) fragments of Renaissance and Baroque religious paintings, resulting in surreal landscapes inhabited by exotic flora, fauna, and figures." The context and the compositional building blocks of her work are fragments of historical masterpieces, which Baade reinterprets using her original feminist and autobiographical perspective. She currently lives in Tallahassee, Florida, where she is a professor in the Department of Art at Florida State University. == Education and early life == 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. == Style == "Carrie Ann Baade is a talented and highly imaginative artist whose work is irrevocably linked to the contemporary surreal movement" (International Confederation of Art Critics) "Baade's oils often contrast dense, extravagant contemporary and classical symbology with luminescent color, communicating themes of mortality, sexuality, personal transformation, and the darker side of human nature" (International Confederation of Art Critics) == Exhibitions, grants, and awards == Baade has received significant recognition through prestigious awards and fellowships. She was nominated in 2022 for the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Fellowship, earned the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Individual Artist Fellowship in 2009, received the First Prize from the Pensacola Museum of Art in 2021, and garnered a Purchase Award from Winners XX at the Biggs Museum of American Art (2021). Her paintings have been featured in various art exhibitions including: "Back and Forth: Thinking in Paint" at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, "Solar Midnight" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville (solo show), "¡Orale! The Kings and Queens of Cool" at Harwood Museum of Art, "In Canon" at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, "Suggestivism" at CSUF Grand Central Art Center in Santa Monica, and "Another Roadside Attraction" at ISE Cultural Foundation in New York City.
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