Carrie Dugan is a figurative artist based in Rochester, New York. She graduated from Alfred University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a minor in Art History. My paintings have appeared in spaces across New York, including New York City, Rochester, Auburn, and Wellsville.
As an expressive figurative painter, Carrie incorporates raw and gestural mark-making with moments of precision to create vulnerable portraits. Ranging from depictions of loved ones to women in magazines, she fluctuates between the urge to portray these individuals in a flattering light or distinctly distorted.
Carrie subconsciously and consciously explores both societal obsession and her own personal fixation with feminine beauty and applies that visual narrative to the subject matter. Concurrently, she invokes peculiar aesthetics, similar to figurative artists like Otto Dix and Alice Neel, to make not only a more intriguing artwork but a more intimate portrayal.
