BIOGRAPHY
Carrie has worked as an artist in New York for twenty years, focusing most recently on abstract painting. Her work is loose and gestural, with saturated compositions of bright color, blunt mark-making, and erasure. The layering implicit in her process is reflective of an emotional excavation, in which feelings and memories are built up over time, calcified, and later broken down. Carrie was awarded the New York Art Marathon Prize, a curatorial grant from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and a BRIC Media Arts Fellowship. She has held residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Bronx Museum, NARS Foundation, Artists Alliance, and the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program. Carrie also works as an arts administrator, as the Director of Institutional Advancement for the Grammy-nominated choral ensemble, Voices of Ascension. She is the President of the Prospect Hill Foundation, and serves on the Advisory Board to the New York Philharmonic, the board of the Third Street Music School Settlement, and the Hunter Art Advisory Board. She received her B.A. from Yale University and M.F.A. from Hunter College. Carrie lives and works in the Bronx with her family.
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Born in 1980
Lives and works in New York
EDUCATION
2010 Hunter College, MFA
2003 Yale University, BA
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2017 Carrie Elston Tunick + Elise McMahon/Like Minded Objects, Beverly’s, New York NY
2012 The Public Secret, Dino Eli Gallery, New York NY
2007 Empty Mind, Novare, New York NY
Art Digest, WeAr Gallery, New York NY
Mood Swings, Soho House, New York NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Expressions in Every Form, Bank Art Gallery, Newburgh, NY
2024 Converge, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2016 Bronx Calling: The Fourth AIM Biennial, Bronx Museum, Bronx NY
Victory Garden, Planthouse, New York NY
2015 (RE)VISION, SVA Masters in Curatorial Practice Exhibition, New York NY
2014 Witness Above Ground, Gallery 151, New York NY
2013 Five Feet From Your Head, MoonRover, Brooklyn NY
In the Zone, Station Independent, New York NY
2012 Frenzy Into Folly, Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York NY
Bivalence: Workspace 12, Cuchifritos, New York NY
2011 Rumble Above the Clouds, Church of St. Paul the Apostle, New York NY
Summer Salt, The Proposition Gallery, New York NY
NY ART MARATHON, Alexandre Gertsman Contemporary Art, New York NY
Lucid Dreaming, Thompkins Square Library Gallery, New York NY
Sprung, Texas Firehouse, Long Island City New York
32 Below, St. Cecilia’s Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2010 We Write This To You From The Distant Future, Google Inc., New York NY
Hemispheres, Lana Santorelli Gallery, New York NY
On the Grid, Camel Art Space, Brooklyn NY
Folly, C.C.C.P. Gallery, Brooklyn NY
The World in 100 Years, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
propinquinty: FRAGMENTS 2010, Artists in the Kitchen, New York NY
Hunter MFA at Crane Arts, Crane Arts, Philadelphia PA
2009 Assemblage Abstract, Dinter Fine Art, New York NY
Cameo Art Gallery Presents, Cameo Art Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2008 Abso/Obsolescence, Gallery 384, Catskill NY
Peace, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2007 War is Over Again, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn NY
2005 A Fine Romance, Atlantic Gallery, New York NY
Women Shine Through, Weave Gallery, Sacramento CA
2004 Wind, Sea, Sky, RE: Monumenta, Project One, Newport RI
RESIDENCIES, GRANTS & AWARDS
2019 BRIC Media Arts Fellowship, Brooklyn NY
2018 Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn NY
2016 NARS Foundation International Residency Program, Brooklyn NY
Bronx Museum Artist-in-the-Marketplace, Bronx NY
2015 Bau Institute, Otranto Italy
2014 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT
2013 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Marfa Dialogues/New York, New York NY
2012 Artists Alliance Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program, New York NY
2011 NY ART MARATHON, First Prize Winner, New York NY
SCREENINGS
2012 Bohemian Nights 3: Beat Attitudes, Dinter Fine Art, San Francisco CA
Bohemian Nights 2, Dinter Fine Art, New York NY
2011 Bohemian Nights, Dinter Fine Art, New York NY
REVIEWS
Rothman, Lily, “Chelsea Gallery Melds Art and Tech Worlds,” DNAinfo New York, July 2011
Brady, Elizabeth, “Artistic Fusion and Optimism at Cameo Gallery,” Greenpoint Gazette, 18 February 2009
STATEMENT
My work explores manifestations of individual consciousness through gestural paintings which are saturated compositions of bright color, blunt mark-making, and erasure. Throughout, there is a passage of time implicit in the working of the paint, which is built up and then excavated, revealing buried color and form. The layering implicit in the process of painting is reflective of an emotional excavation, in which memories are built up over time, become calcified, and are later broken down, uncovered, and exposed. The intention is to lay bare an emotional state, or way of being when the layers of artifice are removed.
In recent years I came back to painting after a long time away from it, having gone through major personal upheaval in my young family. Facing a very different version of my life than the one I had known, I found that I had to become reacquainted with myself. I had to go beneath my own layers of artifice that had built up over the years in order to really recognize myself, and form my own intention. This excavation of the self is mirrored in my painting process.
These paintings have a specificity as well as a universality to them that make them emotionally open. Through a loose, raw, and immediate painting language I am excavating my internal experience, sharing my own intimacies and trying to convey the enormity of it all.
