I see my work as tragicomic explorations of human existence and experience. Drawing inspiration from art history, film stills, and daily life, my figurative paintings explore the human desire for connection.  Using bright colors, intense gazes, comic exaggeration and crowded spaces, my paintings depict psychologically charged moments of longing and isolation.

Sometimes humorous, sometimes bleak, my work looks at our strange and distant relationships, escapist tendencies, and the fluctuating boundaries between our physical, digital, and mentalworlds.

Carrie Frances Wilmarth is an artist from Virginia who currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.  They hold a degree in Philosophy from Mount Holyoke College and studied painting and printmaking at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.   They have exhibited work at The Java Project in New York, the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative in Chicago, and the Goodwin Galleries in Virginia.  Most recently they have been included in group shows with Tussle Projects.