Carrie-Ann Bracco

Carrie-Ann Bracco was born on Long Island, NY. She received her B.A. from Columbia University and her MFA from the New York Academy of Art. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY. Carrie's art has mostly focused on remote and endangered landscapes. She has traveled to unique places to inspire her artwork, including the Amazon jungle of Southern Peru, a sailing expedition (The Arctic Circle) off the coast of Svalbard (Norway), the glaciers of Patagonia and the Andes in Peru. The paintings from these experiences attempt to convey the ethereal quality of these mythic and fragile landscapes. They also illustrate our explorations into the unknown and our tenuous co-existence with the natural environment. More recent work appreciates nature closer to home such as the reflective tide pools at Davis Park in Fire Island and the shimmering effect of snow in Park Slope Brooklyn. Carrie’s work has been included in exhibits at the New York Academy of Sciences, the National Arts Club, Flowers Gallery and Mark Miller Gallery. In 2011, she was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. In 2014, her artwork was included in The Figure, edited by Margaret McCann and published by Skira/Rizzoli Press.