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I have been a painter as long as I can remember, but have always looked beyond painting for vision, exploration, and skill.
My existence in this world has always been motivated by need to do good for myself and others. I have confronted, battled and overcome many of the issues affecting women today: low self esteem, illness, violent and unsupportive surroundings, and a continued search for the ‘right’ in the world. I was raised in Connecticut, but have lived in St. Louis Missouri, Vail Colorado, Albuquerque New Mexico, and Paris France.
Art in some ways has always been an escape, but it is also the first skill I ever became determined to learn; it has always been seated at the door to my intellect as a whole. I have been drawing and painting since I can remember and took my first oil instruction at 9 years.
From 2001 to 2002 I lived in Paris, taking a photography intensive, a ceramics residency, and as a copyist in the Louvre Museum. I hold a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis, where I studied Ceramics and Installation art, winning the Siroky Prize at graduation. I was awarded a residency with the Center of Creative Arts in the Urban Arts program for one and a half years, and have taken my career to the web in pursuing web development and programming. I have been a member of Art Dimensions in St. Louis, helped found the Eagle Valley Artists Alliance (EVAA) in the Vail area, and provided all marketing materials for the Red Cliff Studio Tour for 2007 and 2008. I became a breast cancer survivor at 25 years- an experience responsible for the work I do today. It was around this time where I first took up my latex paint and did the first Concetta series.
The process of healing and understanding the losses and gains from illness are themes in my current work, as are the rhythms of existence in the digitally-driven world and its remarkable metric capacity. Even more remarkable is the discovery of places and situations without the dis-ease of our cultural influence. I currently live with the love of my life in Albuquerque where I am looking for opportunities regionally and nationally to showcase my work and create new work, particularly installation and digitally based art.
Art in some ways has always been an escape, but it is also the first skill I ever became determined to learn; it has always been seated at the door to my intellect as a whole. I have been drawing and painting since I can remember and took my first oil instruction at 9 years.
From 2001 to 2002 I lived in Paris, taking a photography intensive, a ceramics residency, and as a copyist in the Louvre Museum. I hold a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis, where I studied Ceramics and Installation art, winning the Siroky Prize at graduation. I was awarded a residency with the Center of Creative Arts in the Urban Arts program for one and a half years, and have taken my career to the web in pursuing web development and programming. I have been a member of Art Dimensions in St. Louis, helped found the Eagle Valley Artists Alliance (EVAA) in the Vail area, and provided all marketing materials for the Red Cliff Studio Tour for 2007 and 2008. I became a breast cancer survivor at 25 years- an experience responsible for the work I do today. It was around this time where I first took up my latex paint and did the first Concetta series.
The process of healing and understanding the losses and gains from illness are themes in my current work, as are the rhythms of existence in the digitally-driven world and its remarkable metric capacity. Even more remarkable is the discovery of places and situations without the dis-ease of our cultural influence. I currently live with the love of my life in Albuquerque where I am looking for opportunities regionally and nationally to showcase my work and create new work, particularly installation and digitally based art.
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True, and I understand your point, consciousness. Though isn’t a bio’s goal to relate the bullet points of my development to where I am now and where I desire to go? If I survive the negative does that mean that I should not mention it? Am I not also from whence I have come? Thank you for your comment.
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At some point you will be able to transcend your survival and move on to what you ARE. You have to be ready for that first though. I know, I was once highly connected to my survival of these things, now that I’ve moved past the survival mode I don’t even think about my victimization anymore. Caroline, you are such a beautiful person, thank you for sharing from whence you have come!
Peace,
Paula 
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you describe yourself as a survivor of domestic violence, cancer, low self esteem, etc….
you may decide to give up the victim mentality and rewrite the script of your life according to the vision of your desire…
you are what you create…