I paint the worn and fraying parts of our lives, making visible, the marks almost imperceptible interactions leave on our souls.
Trailing experience, we make our way in the world accumulating reminders of all we encounter. The process of living bruises us in ways we aren’t always aware of.
Paintings grow slowly, layered over long stretches of time. Seeking the marks from accumulation, deterioration, and rupture, I react to materials and investigate broken places with incursions of chalk pastel, oil, ink, Flashe paint.
Attempts to obscure or conceal, intuitive gestures that come from a desire to rescue and restore, instead highlight and dignify flaws. Paint drips, threads move as the atmosphere takes them, resin slumps and subtly adapts to place.
Cathie Carroll (b. Chicago IL) is a mixed-media, visual artist living in Tuscany. Her work has been shown in Oregon, California, Maryland, and Arizona.
Various Exhibitions
2023 The Close Read, XGallery, Portland OR
2021 The Forgetting Room, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach CA
2020 Women in Art, Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach CA
2019 REMIXER, Centrum Gallery, Portland OR
2018 Coalesce, Clay Pavilion Gallery, Portland OR
2018 Other Places, Hoffman Gallery, Portland OR
2018 inSECURITY, Lewis & Clark College Women’s Symposium, Portland, OR
2017 Tools for Tools, Centrum Gallery, Portland, OR
2017 Au Naturel, The Nude in the 21st Century, Royal Nebeker Gallery, Astoria OR
2016 Beyond Black & White, Centrum Gallery, Portland, OR
2016 Book and Print, Brookwood Gallery, Hillsboro OR
2016 Fur, Feathers, and Fins, Annmarie Sculpture Garden, Dowell, MD
2015 OCAC Juried Exhibition, Hoffman Gallery, Portland, OR
2015 The Signature Project, Centrum Gallery, Portland, OR