CARRIE ANN BAADE

                                              Mika Fowler Photographer , Gary Wong -stylist

Carrie Ann Baade was born in Natchitoches, Louisiana. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her master from University of Delaware. During her career, she has been awarded the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Individual Artist Fellowship, the Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowship for Established Artist, and nominated for the prestigious United States Artist Fellowship. She now functions as an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL where she lives with her poly-dactyl tabby cat.

Her paintings, often referred to as “allegorical narratives inspired by spirit, literature, and art history” are highly autobiographical and incredibly detailed. These cleverly imagined portraits combine elements of Renaissance and Baroque religious paintings to produce landscapes, characters and settings that are highly reminiscent of something out of the pages of Lewis Carrol.