About the Artist

Carol Carey (1967, Key West, United States) creates mixed media artworks and paintings. With Plato’s allegory of the cave in mind, Carey creates with daily, recognizable elements, an unprecedented situation in which the viewer is confronted with the conditioning of his own perception and must reconsider his biased position.

Her mixed media artworks do not reference recognizable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. By applying abstraction, she makes work that deals with the documentation of events and the question of how they can be presented. The work tries to express this with the help of physics and technology, but not by telling a story or creating a metaphor.

Her work urges us to renegotiate mixed media art as being part of a reactive or – at times – autistic medium, commenting on oppressing themes in our contemporary society. By rejecting an objective truth and global cultural narratives, she creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.

Her works are an investigation into representations of (seemingly) concrete ages and situations as well as depictions and ideas that can only be realized in mixed media art. Carol Carey currently lives and works in Petaluma.