Monica Carrier Art Portfolio

Domesticity gets deified in Monica Carrier’s collection, bringing high and low together to showcase the absurdities and sincerities of daily life. In vivid colors in ink and oil, Carrier depicts such goddesses as Hecate and Persephone, caught as if by candid camera while they scroll their phones or take Zoom calls. They’re quiet and sacred moments, captured by Carrier’s sketches of family and friends, which she then evolves into her vibrant works.

Carrier’s images remind the viewer that the quotidian is never dull, but rather precisely that which deserves reverence and attention. That attention is made manifest by Carrier’s eye-popping colors, her crisp lines, her allegiance to her materials. She considers her role as akin to that of a translator, or medium. Drawing, for Carrier, is a ritual. Reiteration is the method by which her images emerge. Her chosen word for her interactions with subjects and materials? Communion.

Carrier’s visual language is playful and intuitive. Faces are obscured, corners meet at odd angles, subjects leak beyond the limits of their spaces. The strange spaces are the result of Carrier’s fascination with pareidolia––the tendency to perceive a meaningful image or pattern where none exists. Carrier’s work reminds us that the only meaningful patterns and images that exist are those we make by surrendering to intuition, by accepting the daily as deific.