THE LOWBROW TAROT PROJECT

0: The Fool

The Fool
Carrie Ann Baade’s Fool carries only a bag upon her back and in her hand a leash to lead her dog. The leash subtly makes the sign of the infinity symbol as our intrepid traveler takes a step that will lead her off the rational path and into the unknown. Fearless, she embarks on this experience, the sun radiates at her back; she does not fear nor acknowledge the grinning skull that lights her way. It is suggestive of her “crazy wisdom” that she need not acknowledge fate.

Carrie Ann Baade is an internationally exhibiting artist whose surreal oil paintings are rich with allegorical meta-narratives inspired by literature and art history. She has been awarded the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs Individual Artist Fellowship, the Delaware Division of the Arts Fellowship for Established Artist, and a nomination for the prestigious United States Artist Fellowship. Recent solo exhibitions include: the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, the Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia, Billy Shire Fine Arts in Los Angeles, and the Ningbo Art Museum in China. Baade received her Masters in Painting from the University of Delaware and received her B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (including one year of study at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy). Her work has been reviewed and featured in NY ARTS Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Austin Chronicle, Colorado Springs Independent, Albuquerque Journal, and Philadelphia Today.  Exhibiting widely with the Pop Surrealists, her paintings have been featured in Metamorphosis, a survey of the top, contemporary Visionary Surrealists and will be included in the upcoming exhibit, Suggestivism curated by Nathan Spoor, at the Grand Central Art Center in California.

Currently, Carrie is an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at Florida State University accompanied by her polydactyl cat.