 Carisa Swenson's passion for creating curious creatures springs from many sources—a love of Greek mythology and Ray Harryhausen's creations when she was a child, an appreciative eye for Henson Workshop in her teens, to the weird and wonderful films of Jan Svankmajer and The Brothers Quay in her twenties. But when Carisa studied with world-renowned doll artist Wendy Froud, the final die was cast: posable dolls would forever own her soul and trouble her nights, stirring her with a fervor that could only be quelled by stitching and sculpting her dreams into reality. Since 2006 Carisa's work has been featured in several exhibitions and publications, including the Melbourne Fringe Festival, NYU's acclaimed annual "Small Works Show", Art Doll Quarterly, and Spectrum 17. Carisa has an unhealthy obsession with rabbits and rabbit tales which she blames squarely on "Watership Down". Both the book and the movie. Especially the movie. |
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2012 Spectrum Fantastic Art Live! Convention, Kansas City, MO 2011 "Annual Toy Show", MF Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2011"Master Blasters of Sculpture 3", The Hive Gallery and Studios, Los Angeles, CA 2011"Muerto En Vida", Cactus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2011 "It's Alive!", Rendition Gallery, Fort Collins, CO 2011 "Dearly Departed", Dollirium Art Doll Emporium, London, Ontario, CANADA 2011 "Circus Lives!", Waterfront Museum, Red Hook, New York 2011 "Alice in Wonderland 2", The Hive Gallery and Studios, Los Angeles, CA 2011 "The Dollmaker Show", Cactus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2010 "Annual Toy Show", MF Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2010 "The Evil Bunny Show", The Land of Odd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2009 "Fairy Tales: From the Dark Woods to Happily Ever After", Art and Words Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2009 "A Book About Death" , Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, New York, NY 2009 "NYU 32nd Annual Small Works Show", New York, NY 2008 "Totem", Melborne Fringe Festival, Australia 2007 "Tarot", Art Not Terminal Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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Art Zine, 2012 Interview Pork and Mead Magazine, Issue #3, 2012 Interview Nothing to Nobody, Issue #7, 2012 Interview Working in the Third Dimension, 2012 Online interview Coilhouse Magazine Online, 2011 Spectrum Fantastic Art Vol. 17, November 2010 Eclectix "Outside", Summer 2010, online magazine Art Doll Quarterly, Spring 2009 |
