Carrie Scanga | Rockers

Drypoint
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Dimensions (WxH): 68 x 59cm

Carrie Scanga is a Maine-based artist whose practice centers on paper as a primary medium. Beginning with observational drawing, she moves through intaglio printing and paper folding to create images, books, and installations that transform familiar objects and spaces into symbols rich with accumulated meaning. Her work explores paradoxical human experiences, such as fragility and security, isolation and connection, the private and the public, finding in everyday subjects a quietly universal emotional resonance. Scanga's projects take three distinct but complementary forms: large-scale temporary installations that invite communities into shared moments of wonder, intimate artist's books that function as private communication devices, and one-of-a-kind printed works on paper. Drawing viewers into unfolding narrative spaces, each project seeks to articulate what it means to feel solitary or held, separate or belonging. Her work has been exhibited widely, including at the Portland Museum of Art and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and has been supported by fellowships from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, MacDowell, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, among others. Solo exhibitions have taken her work to Berlin, Kansas City, Houston, Philadelphia, and beyond.