Swoon comes to FSU/Homeless Shelter Project
November 17th, 2011CUTE AND CREEPY OPENS OCTOBER 14th
September 27th, 2011
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Cute & Creepy, Curated by Carrie Anne Baade
Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts SHOW DATES: October 7– November 20, 2011 An Exhibition of Contemporary Grotesquerie at The Museum of Fine Art at Florida State University opening October of 2011 curated by Carrie Ann Baade. The following artists will be included in the exhibit:
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Lee’s Wine Bar: An Exhibition of Prints Tallahassee, FL
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September 6th through October 31st
A retrospective exhibition of prints.
Reception: 6pm-9pm on October 1st
This reception is a fundraiser for the Swoon Project at The Shelter
Where: Lees Wine Bar
1700 N. Monroe St., Suite 19
Tallahassee, FL 32303
850.692.3404
Website: Lees Wine Bar
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Flaunt: 25 Artists, 25 Places, 25 Days Thomasville Center of the Arts
September 27th, 2011|
September 23 – October 17, 2011
To commemorate 25 years of promoting arts and culture, the Thomasville Center for the Arts, in collaboration with Downtown Main Street Thomasville will shine the spotlight on the region’s talent by exhibiting the works of 25 artists in 25 places for 25 days. Where: Thomasville Center for the Arts
600 East Washington Street
Thomasville, GA 31799
(Ph) 229.226.0588 Website: Flaunt
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Believe It or Not? The Dunedin Fine Art Center in Dunedin, FL
September 27th, 2011
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September 9 – December 23, 2011
This international exhibition features contemporary artists whose works—in image, methods or materials—are simply = unbelievable! Artists, representing a range of media, include: CarrieAnn Baade, Cynthia Holmes, Jennifer Lederhouse, Jennifer Maestre, Carol Prusa, Brian Ransom and collaborative artists, Comenius Roethlisberger & Admir Jahic.
Where: The Dunedin Fine Art Center
1143 Michigan Blvd.
Dunedin, FL 34698
727.298.DFAC
Website: Dunedin Fine Art Center
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Baade Lectures at the Observatory in Brooklyn OCTOBER 25th, 2010
September 18th, 2010|
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The Desire to Conceal and Reveal: The Narrative in ArtThe Desire to Conceal and Reveal: The Narrative in Art Date: Monday October 25th Looking at a painting, the viewer desires to know a fixed or exact reading, but many a well-crafted allegory has mysterious and ironic twists that take the viewer through an unexpected path of understanding. How does meaning enter a painting? Is it possible for the artist to communicate a specific narrative using only symbolic language? How does a complex image invite a legible understanding in the mind’s eye of the viewer? Each subject of a narrative painting speaks as a symbol, allegory, or metaphor in concert to create a larger picture puzzle. While an artist’s secrets may be exposed in plain site, it is a function of allegory to hide as much as it exposes. Where is the magic of meaning and how has this historic process evolved to be used by the contemporary artist? Baade will discuss several contemporary painters’ methods for speaking through their art and the roots of this historic, visual tradition.
Carrie Ann Baade is an internationally exhibiting artist whose surreal oil paintings are rich with allegorical meta-narratives inspired by literature and art history. 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 |
| October 25: The Desire to Conceal and Reveal the Narrative in Art: An illustrated lecture by Professor Carrie Ann Baade |
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LOWBROW TAROT at LA LUZ DE JESUS in LA
August 12th, 2010
October 1 – 31
The Art of the Lowbrow Tarot
Opening Reception: Friday, October 1st, 8-11 pm

LOWBROW TAROT PROJECT
Exhibition, Book and Card Deck
“There are 22 cards in the Major Arcana, each showing some aspect of the human experience. The cards of the Major Arcana are focused on three themes: the realm of the material world, the realm of the intuitive mind, and the realm of change.”
The Lowbrow Tarot Project will showcase 23 amazing artists who will use their creative genius and unique style to take on the 22 Major Arcana [+ the card back] and create 23 new works of art in the rugged glow of the lowbrow art movement to be displayed in an exhibition at La Luz de Jesus in October 2010, along with a hard cover tabletop book and full color tarot card deck.
“In Canon” at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art
August 12th, 2010August 13, 2010 – January 2, 2011
In Canon
Guest Curator: Margaret Winslow

Carrie Ann Baade
The Temptation of the Penitent Medusa, 2010
Oil on panel, 12” x 18”
Courtesy of the artist
This exhibition assembles paintings, drawings, sculpture, and installation by artists who mine artistic precedents for source material, style, or technique. A common practice throughout the history of art, these methods of visual quotation allow viewers a point of recognition and artists a means of critique. Carrie Ann Baade’s autobiographical parables combine fragments of Renaissance and Baroque religious paintings, resulting in surreal landscapes inhabited by exotic flora, fauna, and figures. Addressing 21st century consumerism and production, Laurie Hogin’s monkey portraits infuse 17th-century Dutch still life with pointed social commentary. Julie Heffernan’s large-scale self-portrait landscape paintings quote a variety of 17th and 18th century old masters—Northern Renaissance and Spanish Baroque, among others—with an underlying consciousness of notions of femininity. In her whiteware vases and lush paintings, Jane Irish combines references to conceptual artists working in the mid-20th century—such as Marcel Broodthaers and Joseph Beuys—with elements of French Rococo painting, architecture, and porcelain production. Works by artists such as Annette Davidek, Sara Sosnowy, and Susan Chrysler White draw influence from plant illustration and William Morris wallpaper designs, while recalling the female-dominated Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970s. René Treviño layers Victorian wallpaper designs with figures and animals associated with masculinity as an exploration of the artist’s self-identity (as a gay Latino male). Whether exploring the human condition, notions of beauty, or personality in popular culture, the artists included work both within and outside of the art historical “canon.”
—Margaret Winslow
Margaret Winslow holds an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art, Theory and Criticism from SUNY Purchase College and a BA from Mary Washington College. She has curated for the Neuberger Museum of Art, New Wilmington Art Association, and assisted with exhibits for the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. Winslow currently lives in Wilmington, DE, and is the Assistant Curator at the Delaware Art Museum.

Julie Heffernan
Self Portrait as Sea Monster, 2006
Oil on canvas, 67″ x 58″
Courtesy of PPOW Gallery

Laurie Hogin
Dutch Masters, ”3:12, Lord X. Onmobil”,
“5:12. Lord Dow”, “6:12, Lord Merck”,
“8:12, Lord Oxy” 2003
Oil on panel with artist-made frame, 6 3/4” x 6” each
Courtesy of Littlejohn Contemporary
LEAD POISONING OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, JULY 10TH, 7-11PM
June 29th, 2010
July 10th – July 25th, 2010: Jason D’Aquino & Lead Poisoning group show
Wayne Anderson, Esao Andrews, Carrie Ann Baade, Glenn Barr, Andrew Brandou, Scott G. Brooks, Jon Butcher, Estra Byrd, Molly Crabapple, Robert Craig, Brian Despain, Daniel Martin Diaz, Brandon Dunlap, Ewelina Ferruso, Fred Harper, Pedro de Kastro, Viktor Koen, Craig LaRotonda, Jason Limon, Michael Mararian, Chris Mars, David MacDowell, Tara McPherson, the PIZZ, Matthew Pleva, Anthony Pontius, Christopher Ryniak, Jose Manuel Schmill, Greg (Craola) Simkins, David Stoupakis, Gary Taxali, Tom Thewes, Miles Thompson, Tara Warwick, Keith Weesner, Eric White, Robert Williams, Chet Zar and more!










