CarolAnn Wachter | Art: Bio



CarolAnn Wachter studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited through out the U.S. and France and has actively taught painting over the past 15 years in New York, Connecticut and now Colorado. Her style of painting has been influenced by abstract expressionism and compared to DeKooning and Pollock. The New York Times described it as possessing a “distinct sense of fragility ...abets the sense of emergency... It's an unsettling synthesis...” Not only influenced by abstract expressionism Ms. Wachter sees art and design as closely linked. She has crossed over at times from fine art into design, viewing fabric as just another medium to create with. Influenced by the Weiner Werkstatte of 1920’s Vienna and the geometry of Madeleine Vionnet’s dresses, Wachter has produced unique geometric fabric designs as well as a line of sculptural hats and clothing. Her art is the constant dialogue between inherent patterns and their emergence into new form -- “the appurtenance of Beauty is Ritual Design.” Exhibitions 2009 Works on paper La Belleza Spa and Winery Lyons, CO 2009 Painting the White Box University of Colorado Art Gallery Boulder, CO 2008 Interiors Eyals Gallery Boca Raton, FL 2006 Design in Abstraction Commodore Gallery of Art and Design Miami, FL 2005 Japan and New York La Vuelta Long Island City, NY 2004 Three Painters Crane Street Studios Long Island City, NY 2003 Beauty Parlor Healing Arts Gallery Brooklyn, New York 2003 Ancestral Cell Whips Liquors restaurant and bar Brooklyn, New York 2002 Aids Benefit Show Spencer Brownstone Gallery New York 2001 Food Shelter Clothing ABC Norio NewYork, New York 2001 Aids Benefit Show Sarah Metzler Gallery New York, New York 2001 Artists Flat File Perogi 2000 Brooklyn, New York 2001 Past and Present ArtSpace New Haven, CT 2001 L.I.C.A City Bank Long Island City, New York 2000 International Art Exhibiton Carrenac, France 1999 Familiar Strangers Galapagos Art and Performance Space Brooklyn, NY 1999 A Pair of Abtract Painters New Haven, CT 1999 Bunch Untitled Space New Haven, CT 1998 Revised Standard Model The Educational Center for the Arts New Haven, CT 1998 Special Nonsense The Educational Center for the Arts New Haven, CT 1997 Underwater Explorations Pelham Art Center Bronx, New York 1996 Re:variables The Educational Center for the Arts New Haven, CT 1996 Gifts for the 21st Century ArtSpace New Haven, CT 1991 BFA Thesis Show The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL Publications 2003 Creating Form, New Artists and Designers D-Palma, Barcelona, Spain 2000 International Art Exhibit Carrenac News, Carrenac, France 1999 A Pair of Abstract Painters William Zimmer of the New York Times, New York, NY 1999 Abstract show pairs the ferocious with the organic Judy Burke of The New Haven Register 1999 Beauty Parlor Horror Emily Sunderland of New Haven Advocate New Haven, CT 1999 Dutch Elm Ebola collection of poetry and painting, Goatville works, New Haven, CT Residencies 2006 Vermont Studio School Johnston, Vermont 2009 Bubec Sculpture Studio Prague, Czech Republic Curator/Gallery Coordinator Erector Square Gallery New Haven, CT 1994-95 Curator of contemporary art exhibits of both local and national artists. Reviewed artist proposals and portfolios and organized the yearly calendar of shows. Collections Mr. R. Simmons of New York, NY Mr. and Mrs. Robert Ludicke of Miami, FL Ms. Gabrielle Hanson of North Haven, CT Education BFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1991 Websites http://www.re-title.com http://www.carolannwachter.com/painting