Sitting with this dichotomy of trauma being beautiful and complex brought me right into a wordless space of land and body connection, where recognition that bodies and land are traumatized, so to speak, and remain ineffable, immutable, and beautiful.

Carrie Crawford

About the Artist

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Carrie Crawford (b. 1969) is a painter and textile artist working with indigo and other natural dyes. Her organic shapes result from a series of dips into various vats of wild-crafted and handmade dye. Inspired in part by raw landscape and felt experience, her work attempts to link land and body through earthen materials. She resides in Fairfax, CA with her family.

News and Notables
  • Exhibited with Uprise Art at Affordable Art Fair, 2019

  • Featured in Focus No More, 2017

  • Profiled in TRNK NYC, 2016