Carolina Jiménez
Biography
Brooklyn-based artist Carolina Jiménez creates “woven paintings”, a mode of image making that examines the boundaries between fiber and painting. From afar, the shimmering materiality and bold geometry is reminiscent of color-field abstraction. On closer viewing, the aggregation of yarns held in tension and repose and the shifting colors of natural dyes, reveals a methodology as deeply indebted to craft techniques as to the logic of abstract expressionism. Jiménez’ central focus of work remains the body as a site for memory; her works function as traditional paintings as much as sites of labor and studies of historical technique. Influenced by her background in architecture, these woven paintings reflect a careful calibration of size and scale. They are monuments into which the past is woven, unraveled, and stretched
Carolina Jiménez (b. 1991, Riverside, CA) received her BArch from Syracuse University (2014) and an MFA in Textile Design at Rhode Island School of Design (2018). She has held solo and group exhibitions internationally including Lobster Club, Los Angeles, CA; Alison Bradley Projects, New York, NY; JO-HS, Mexico City, Mexico; Bainbridge Museum of Art, Bainbridge, WA; and RISD Museum, Providence, RI. Her grants and awards include the Museum Art and Design Artist Fellowship, New York, NY; Casa Lu Residency, Mexico City, Mexico; and Etvernal Residency, Brooklyn, NY. Jiménez is currently completing a residency at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, CT and will have a solo exhibition at HESSE FLATOW, New York in 2025.
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