Carrie Mae Rose
Bio:
Carrie Mae was born in 1975, on 100 acres of land in rural West Virginia, in a log cabin built by her folks. She resided there until she was a toddler and then moved north to small-town Ravenna & Kent, Ohio. At 19, life adventures took her to Prescott, Arizona where the desert beauty awoke her creativity. Carrie Mae began working with desert growing agave plant, beads and endless circle forms. For many years she sought secluded swimming holes, spread into desert vistas, slept under dazzling skies, danced beneath glorious sunsets and played with her dog, Amazing Grace.
Carrie Mae began exhibiting her artwork in Prescott, Jerome, Winslow, and Phoenix, Arizona before moving to New York City in 2007. Carrie Mae’s dynamic background places her in a unique position to blend together fine art, performance, fashion and technology. She studied and performed Butoh with Diego Pinon and acrobatic stilt walking with The Carpetbag Brigade Physical Theater Company. She assisted wearable artist, Latifa Medjdoub in San Francisco and jewelry designer Joomi Lim, in New York City. Her recent studies in the field of interactive technology bring a breadth of understanding for building new multi-media costumes and installations. Carrie Mae Rose holds a M.F.A. in Design and Technology from Parsons The New School for Design in New York City, and a B.A. from Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona. She currently lives and works in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY.
Artist Statement:
Carrie Mae Rose is a sculptor and interactive installation artist creating on the convergence of fine art, fashion, technology and performance. She builds and make sculptures and wearable items out of confiscated scissors from airport security and other potentially dangerous recycled objects. It is her vision to create a series of devastatingly beautiful couture costumes that will soon include sound and movement interactive through embedded and interactive technology and electrical currents.
For over 10 years, she has been working with the theme of personal and national protection and how it is manifesting in our current cultural epoch. Asking questions such as: What brings people a feeling of safety and protection? ...does armor and protective clothing and do security measures at airports? ...does meditation and spiritual connection?
Greatly inspired by Hindu yantras and Tibetan mandala sand paintings, Carrie Mae Rose has come to believe that just like a pure resonant note shatters a glass, a visual imprint of beauty and perfection changes the viewer. Her circular sculptures hold an essence of the macrocosm and microcosm, bringing harmony on an archetypal level. It is also her belief that just as a flower's petals open and reflect celestial realms in their vibrant colors, particular shapes and scents - so fashion and costumes are our personal human petals, reflecting and holding our own individual archetypes.
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