Carrie Ann Baade is a painter based in Tallahassee, FL where she is an Assistant Professor in the Fine Arts Department at Florida State University

Florida State University

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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

Colorado

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 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

Italy

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 studying the techniques of the old masters at the Florence Academy of Art. In 2003 she earned her MFA from the University of Delaware

University of Delaware

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Style

Baade's paintings are oil works blending dense, imaginative contemporary and classic symbology with luminescent color, often featuring themes of mortality, sexuality, personal transformation, and the darker side of human nature. She has been associated with the contemporary surreal movement, though her work treats this in an academic manner that rewards detailed study. "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."

Works

2003 to 2004: The Secret Lives of Portraits -
"This is an ongoing series of BIZARRE INDIVIDUALS...."

2004-2005: Wanted: Night Gardener -
The title was inspired by a newspaper want ad. Baade paints at night and as she says, "I feed on the dreams of the sleeping and reveal a world I design for the waking."

2006 to 2008: Virtues and Vices -
This series sprung from the chosen materials, egg tempera and gold leaf. Using the medieval techniques of icon painters, she found herself drawn toward Catholic iconography which she adapted to her own ends. She challenged herself to balance the familiarity of agonies and ecstasies with the lighter virtues of mercy and chastity while avoiding the pitfall of the insipid.

2008 to 2010: Intemperance -
Extremes of behavior, those that one might strive to keep private in polite society, are served as catharsis.

2010 to 2011: Tales of Passion and Woe

Exhibitions, Grants, and Awards

Carrie Ann has been nominated for the United States Artists

United States Artists

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 Fellowship and awarded the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Individual Artist Fellowship, the Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowship for Established Artists, and many more.

Her paintings have been featured in various narrative art exhibitions including: In Canon at the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Suggestivism

Suggestivism

Suggestivism is a term used to describe the works of some contemporary artists that demonstrate a 'suggestion.' Suggestivism was used by Nathan Spoor as the title of a 2011 gallery exhibition at CSU Fullerton's Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, California...

 at Grand Central Art Center in Santa Monica

Santa Mônica

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, and Another Roadside Attraction at ISE Cultural Foundation in New York City

New York City

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. In 2007 she was among a group of three artists who became the first Americans ever to exhibit at the Ningbo Museum of Art, one of the largest provincial museums in China, located outside of Shanghai

Shanghai

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. The director of the Ningbo Museum called them "the Mayflowers" for their contributions as cultural ambassadors.

Baade has exhibited in group shows alongside the likes of H. R. Giger

H. R. Giger

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, Chet Zar

Chet Zar

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, Robert Williams

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, Mark Ryden

Mark Ryden

-Early life:Ryden is the son of Barbara and Keith Ryden, born in Medford, Oregon but raised in Southern California. He has two sisters and two brothers, one a fellow artist named Keyth Ryden....

, Glenn Barr

Glenn Barr

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, Elizabeth McGrath

Elizabeth McGrath

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, Mark Mothersbaugh

Mark Mothersbaugh

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, Marion Peck

Marion Peck

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, Aaron Smith, Eric White

Eric White (artist)

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, Gail Potocki

Gail Potocki

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, Daniel Martin Diaz

Daniel Martin Diaz

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, Laurie Lipton, Shag

SHAG (Josh Agle)

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, Tim Biskup

Tim Biskup

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, Judith Schaecter, Joe Sorren

Joe Sorren

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, Chris Mars

Chris Mars

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, Jessica Joslin, Gary Baseman

Gary Baseman

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, the Clayton Brothers

Clayton Brothers

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, Kris Kuksi Shawn Barber

Shawn Barber

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, Scott G. Brooks, Travis Louie, Elizabeth McGrath

Elizabeth McGrath

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, Michael Hussar

Michael Hussar

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, Esao Andrews

Esao Andrews

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, Molly Crabapple

Molly Crabapple

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, Greg Simkins, Christopher Ulrich, David Stoupakis

David Stoupakis

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, Julie Heffernan

Julie Heffernan

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, Laurie Hogin, Tina Imel, Ron English, Christian Rex van Minnen, Viktor Safonkin, Peter Gric

Peter Gric

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, Heidi Tallifer, Kris Lewis

Kris Lewis

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, Femke Hiemstra

Femke Hiemstra

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, Audrey Kawasaki

Audrey Kawasaki

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, Jeff Soto

Jeff Soto

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, Madeline von Foerster, Richard Kirk

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, and Nicola Verlato

Nicola Verlato

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Publications

Works included:

Books

• Spoor, Nathan. (2011) Suggestivism: A Comprehensive Survey of Contemporary Artists. Gingko Press. ISBN No. 978-1584234470

• Ziegler, Tina. (2010) Hunt & Gather. Mark Batty Publisher. ISBN No. 978-0981960036

• Baade, Carrie Ann. (2008) Carrie Ann Baade. Lulu.

• Becket-Griffith, Jasmine. (2008) Gothic Art Now. HarperCollins
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   Canada / Harper International. ISBN No. 978-0061626999.

• Kuntyj, Lynda. (2008) Visual Arts: A Resource for Units 2A-2B. Impact Publishing. ISBN No. 978-1921305245.

• Bienart, Jon. (2007) Metamorphosis: 50 Surrealists and Visionary Artists. Visionary Press. ISBN No. 978-0980323108

Magazines

• Staniec, Kevin. (2008) ISM: Untitled Love Project. Issue #15

• Weird Tales
  Weird Tales
  Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923. It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived. The magazine was set up in Chicago by J. C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre....
  
   (Hugo Award Winner). Cover, Issue #358

Interviews

• Jordan, Melanie C. Imagine Magazine. August, 2009.

• Spoor, Nathan. Hi-Fructose. June, 2009.

• Beinart, Jon. Beinart International Surreal Art Collective. Art News: Interview with Carrie Ann Baade. June, 2007

• Grossman, Pam. Phantasmaphile. September, 2006.