Carrie Rudd’s (b.1994) analytical abstractions synthesize observation, experience, and theory into visual frameworks that become imbued with a frenetic impulse. Sometimes these frameworks are literal— graphs, diagrams, or linguistic structures— other times, an emotion might serve as the initial kernel. Each episodic exploration begins by plotting a complex network of nodes: shame, anxiety, and depression are just as likely to form a coordinate as an observation of real-world chaos, sensory experience, or theoretical phenomena. Through a laborious physical process, these initial conceptual structures are interrogated, complicated and corporealized into palimpsestic visual records. As if finding herself inside a maze, Rudd lets the will of the paint guide her: Line, color, composition and texture are executed, effaced and resurrected as the work demands, leaving the residue of the painting’s gestation embedded within the heavily worked-over surfaces. The final complex compositions draw on both a deep intellectual drive and command of abstract expressionism to trace new routes out of labyrinths born of the artist’s necessity.

Rudd received her BA from Hamilton College, Clinton, NY in 2016, and subsequently received her MFA from Hunter College, New York, NY in 2021. She has recently been the subject of solo exhibitions at Polina Berlin Gallery, New York, NY (2024, 2023, & 2022); and 12.26, Dallas, TX (2023). Her work has been included in shows at Chapter NY, New York, NY (2024); superzoom, Paris, FR (2023); 91 Allen Street, New York, NY (2023); Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY (2021); Conduit Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2021); and Hesse Flatow, New York, NY (2020). She was the recipient of The J. Barney Moore Prize in Art (2016) and the Smallen Award for Creativity (2014). Rudd currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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