Carrie Chisholm
Artist member since 2020
Toronto, Ontario
Carrie Chisholm, AOCAD, MFA is an award-winning artist/designer and marketing/ business development professional who draws inspiration from her engagement with arts and culture communities and institutions at home and abroad.
Carrie methodically devotes her time to her mixed media art practice, interspersing and combining drawing, painting, collage, sculpture and installation) applications. She is particularly fascinated with the optical affects and illusions generated by the elements of line, colour and light such as ornamentation, pattern, transparency, shadow-casting and reflection.
She has built her practice on reinterpreting designer product photography, exploring the tension between desire and fulfillment through transformed depictions of opulent objects.
Inside the Studio
Q+A
What do you listen to when you work?
I'm currently listening to a good amount of retro 80's, particularly music in the New Wave and New Romantic sub-genres.
Coffees per day and from where
I try to never exceed one in the morning. I enjoy Balzac's Coffee, they have a great cafe in my neighbourhood.
When I'm not making art, I'm (a) ...
The Director of Business Development & Marketing at an exhibition design firm, striving to find the balance between my 'bread and butter' and my practice.
What artists do you admire right now?
Like many in the city, I thoroughly enjoyed the Mickalene Thomas: Femmes Noires exhibit at the AGO a few years ago. I'm an enduring fan of Janet Cardiff, whose 'Forty-Part Motet' is one of my all time favourite works. For a more local flavour, I am also a fan of the work of my friend Dorian FitzGerald, who is represented by Clint Roenisch.
When did you start making art, and why?
I've been making art for as long as I can remember. I still have 2 separate portraits of my parents I created when I was 3 1/2 years old. My expressionist style and energetic line work hasn't evolved too far beyond that effort. I make art because I find it both inspiring and meditative.
What places do you hang out in Toronto?
During the pandemic I spent much time taking walks in my neighbourhood of Wallace-Emerson, along Gehry Avenue and Dupont Street. I enjoy the grit and industriousness of the local creative businesses. For a little more greenery, I walk up to Earlscourt Park or ride my bike along Davenport Road. It's a very livable part of the city that feels slightly less congested than many other centrally-located neighbourhoods.
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