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Introduction:
Carrie Able is an accomplished artist from the United States and is most known for her oil paintings, visual artistry, poetry, and music. She went to Duke University and is based out of Brooklyn. She focuses on the female silhouette and the incorporation of bright colors. She is recognized for her art exhibitions and accomplishments such as the publishing of her first book of poetry, the release of her first album, and her well-known speeches across the country. She continues to contribute her moving artwork to the art community as well as begin to incorporate modern techniques such as virtual reality in order to continue to engage her audience. Carrie is also heavily involved with the community teaching art to children and helping with other non-profit organizations.

Background:
Carrie Able was born on April 6th, 1982. She is a former fashion model and graduate from Duke University. She is known by most as a painter, visual artist, poet, and musician. Carrie is based in Brooklyn and her artwork has been showcased across the United States and in worldwide private collections. She is well-known for her oil paintings, but she is an all-around accomplished artist. Able has been working with oil on linen for over twenty years and was a working portrait artist by the age of fourteen. Her first works focused on realism in the renaissance masters oil technique. However, her oil works of the past eight years have increasingly merged the two techniques of representative and abstract artistry.

Her Work:
Carrie Able is a visual artist, poet, and musician. In terms of her paintings, she does most of her work with oil paint on linen canvases. Her paintings are known for their bright colors and her incorporation of female silhouettes. Able’s work is becoming more prevalent in the art world as it has been featured in many museums from the Honolulu Museum of Art to the Toledo Museum of Art, magazines such as the National Geographic Traveler, and has made appearances in many art fairs. In 2018, Able contributed a solo exhibition at Volta Art Fair, and in December 2019 was featured at Art Basel Miami Beach’s Pulse Art Fair.

In 2016, Able published her first book of poetry. She titled it “Painted Poetry.” This book incorporates both her paintings and poems. She closely describes and visualizes her paintings through her poetry.

Able released her first debut solo musical album, “Frequency” in 2017. It was featured on many different musical sites including iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, and Spotify. She celebrated her first album’s release with a performance in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Many people describe Able’s singing as being “haunting” and “unlike any other artist.” Most say her music is a mix of The Doors, Lou Reed, and Patti Smith. Able is currently working on recording her second album with AMBE, a Grammy recognized producer.

Internationally, she is recognized as an artist, poet and musician. She is featured in many worldwide private collections and was a keynote speaker at the Kristal Elma Festival in Istanbul on October 5, 2017.

Carrie is currently an artist in residence at Jump into the Light, which is America’s first virtual reality (VR) cinema experience and playlab in Manhattan's Lower East Side. VR cinema goers can view 360° virtual reality films, play immersive VR games on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, be 3D scanned into VR, and view the work of leading artists in immersive media. Curtesy of Deathless VR and Jump into the Light, an immersive Virtual Reality painting of Carrie Able’s will be on display in the gallery for this exhibition.

Oil Paintings
Her work is featured on her own website:

Dreams:
Dreams was an exhibition by Able of oil on linen paintings at the Soho Grand’s Public Factory. Like much of her work, the pieces from Dreams exhibit use of bright colors and the female silhouette.

Carrie Able Gallery:
First opened during 2016 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Carrie Able Gallery is a mission based project that showcases the work of multiples of different and unique artists. These artists are selected strictly by their work due to the board not receiving any information about the artist beforehand, so only basing their decision based on the pieces that are presented. In March of 2019 Carrie Able Gallery will be adding a new concept space for artist studio residency, named The Fluid.