Carrie Rudd
Advancing an expansive and often combinatory approach to histories of abstraction, Carrie Rudd probes the relationship between visual art and language. In Rudd’s vibrant canvases, painting becomes both a form of thinking and a means of rendering moments that elude verbal articulation. Myriad forms of writing – in journals and sketchbooks, or quickly-jotted on notepads – form the basis of an ebullient practice that toggles between set parameters and unfettered improvisation. Rarely seen yet subtly integrated into each work, such preparatory materials – linguistic sketches, perhaps – may also gesture toward painting’s capacity, as Rudd has said, to “convey ideas that originate in the real world, but defy representational form.”
Carrie Rudd (b. 1994, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY) earned her MFA at Hunter College. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at Polina Berlin Gallery, New York (2025, 2024, 2023, 2022); NARANJO 141, Mexico City (2025); Chapter NY, New York (2024); 12.26, Dallas,Texas (2025, 2023); Hunter College, New York (2021, 2019); Hauser & Wirth, New York (2021); and the Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York (2016). She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
