I find the indignity of motherhood laugh-out-loud funny while being enamored by my children doing homework or scrolling their phones. Usually with ink on paper, I celebrate the absurd alongside the sincere. I love spaces between & pareidolia. I consider the spiritual, hand in hand with the irreverent, often allowing imagery to emerge. Breasts might become eyes or an ink spill may become a queen. I am serious about taking nothing too seriously and am wonderstruck by my everyday life.
Monica Carrier (b. 1978 Philadelphia, PA) has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at A.I.R. Gallery and Thomas Hunter Project Space in NYC and FjellerupIBund & Grund in Denmark. She has been awarded fellowships, residencies and grants from Hunter College, A.I.R. Gallery and Arts@Renaissance. Her work has been included at venues such as: KuBe Art Center, Ethan Cohen Gallery (Beacon, NY); Warburton Gallery/USU (NY); Tiger Strikes Asteroid (NY); Trestle (NY); The Highpoint Project, (VA); ArtsWestchester (NY); Rhombus Space (NY); Bruno David Gallery (MO). She has organized a number of exhibitions including at Arts@Renaissance (NY) where she had a studio residency; via A.I.R. Gallery (NY) where she received a Fellowship; with tART (NY), a feminist art collective in which she was a member; and most recently at PeepSpace, a contemporary arts project space in NY, she co-founded in 2020 and currently directs. She has been a visual arts educator since 1998. Carrier holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art, Temple University and a Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College, The City University of New York.