Carrie Stubbs

Statement

Light paints the air, the space. It enters the room, connecting the outside with the in. It takes on its own form. Forms and repetition of basic colored geometric forms manipulate their surroundings, they play with our perception. They become foreground. Background. Tension.

Carrie’s work examines our perception of light and density of interactions of color. Her work has been described as decorative, as design and as kitsch, descriptions she embraces. Her work questions the sanctity of pure, reduced beauty. As a product of consumerism, she often uses packaging material (cardboard boxes, inexpensive wood similar to material used to make transportation crates) to create her work. At times, she also uses appropriation of the minimalists, as readily as she also appropriates from the geometric, mass-produced world around her.

GlogauAIR Project

Carrie will be exploring the connections between cast light, the drawn line of light and planes of color. How does colored light change when used / seen directly compared to reflective light? What happens to the form that creates the frame for this light? How does that optical illusion change through color choice? Both painted works and light pieces will examine the connections of how our perception of light and color is that affected by a surface.

CV Summary

Lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland

Education

• 2002-2005 Studied with Helmut Federle at Academy of Fine Arts, Düsseldorf, Germany (Akademiebrief in 2005)
• 1997-2002 Studied with A.R. Penck at the Academy of Fine Arts, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 1996-1997 Post- Baccalaureate in Studio Arts at Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
• 1989-1993 BA, Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont, USA

Exhibition list

• 2022, Penck Klasse, Coelner Zimmer, Düsseldorf, Germany *July/ September 2022
• 2020, StudioK3 Cabinet, Museum Oltern, Olten Switzerland
• 2019, Blue is Hot and Red is Cold, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
• 2019, Penck Klasse, Kultur Bahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 2018, A Line Allein, Hilbertraum, Berlin, Germany
• 2018, Alchemical Vessels, Smith Center for Healing Arts, Washington DC, USA
• 2009, Some Assembly Required, Reinraum, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 2008, Make a Wish, Das Weltkabarett, Galerie für Zeitgenossiches Kunst, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 2007, Conscience of a Blackened Street, Galerie Andreas Brüning, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 2007, Anonymous III, Corcoran Gallery, Gallery at Flashpoint, Washington DC, USA
• 2007, Vision, Verdichtung des Realen, Liesegang, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 2006, Walz Schelle Wert, Clubruine, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 2006, Form Follows Fiction, Exile III, Ellen Slegers Temp Art Space, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 2006, Bretter, die die Welt nicht Braucht, Acapulco, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 2006, Project Space, Chicago Art Fair, Chicago Illinois, USA
• 2006, Exile on Cottage Street, Ellen Slegers Temp Art Space, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 2004, Neustart- Wohin? Museum Baden, Solingen, Germany
• 2004, My Father’s Eyes, Galerie Andreas Brüning, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 2003, Paradeis im Bunker, Alexanderplatz, Berlin
• 2003, Recent Work, Galerie Andreas Brüning, Düsseldorf, Germany

Gallery