Polina Berlin Gallery is pleased to present Vitals, an exhibition of new paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Carrie Rudd. The exhibition will be on view from June 9 through July 29, 2022.

Carrie Rudd contends with oil paint in masses. Her succulent abstractions are marinated in tactile consideration, emerging out of a concern for painting’s boundaries. She labors to make the most out of her surfaces, building up and exhuming layers of paint to reveal unexpected vignettes. The resulting works are gluttonous yet considered, indexed yet frenetic.

Rudd is persistently devious, dreaming, planning, and configuring. The ideas she hatches are a springboard for her compositions; one work picks up where another leaves off. Each painting poses its own specific challenge: as she approaches a canvas, a procedure is enacted, one that implicates lyricality and measure. Rudd prods at failing systems and the body’s limits along with her own relationship with desire, shame, and self denial. She explores modes of communication and historical precedents. It’s crucial that Rudd doubles as an art historian, exhibiting a deference to the past while making a case for painting’s future.

Carrie Rudd was born in Hastings on Hudson, New York, in 1994, and completed her MFA at Hunter College in 2021. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Hunter College, Hauser & Wirth, New York, and the Wellin Museum of Art, Clinton, New York.

Carrie Rudd (b. 1994, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York) lives and works in New York. She completed her MFA at Hunter College in 2021. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Chapter NY (New York), 12:26 (Dallas, Texas), Hunter College (New York), Hauser & Wirth (New York) and the Wellin Museum of Art (Clinton, New York).

Born

• Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, 1994. Lives and works in New York, NY

Education

• 2021 | MFA, Hunter College, New York, NY

• 2016 | BA, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

• 2015 | Affiliate Program in Painting, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, London, UK

One-Person Exhibitions 

• 2025 An indispensable thing (with Lola Strong-Brett), NARANJO 141, Mexico City, MX (1/16-2/23)

• 2024 The Narcissism of Small Differences, Polina Berlin Gallery, New York, NY (4/3-5/4)

• 2023 Squirm, 12.26, Dallas, TX (12/16-1/20)
  Vitals II, Polina Berlin Gallery, New York, NY (3/7-4/8)

• 2022 Vitals, Polina Berlin Gallery, New York, NY (6/9-7/29)

• 2021 Tinieblas, Hunter MFA, New York, NY (11/14-11/23)

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2024 Misshape, Chapter NY, New York, NY (3/1-3/30)
  Emotional Intelligence II, Polina Berlin Gallery, New York, NY (2/22-3/27)

• 2023 Soft Focus: Jessica Cannon, Parmen Daushvili, Tamo Jugeli, Carrie Rudd (curated by Polina Berlin),superzoom, Paris, France (6/29-7/31)
  Threshold (curated by Lindsay Jarvis & Frenel Morris), 91 Allen Street, New York, NY (2/4-2/19)

• 2022 Emotional Intelligence, Polina Berlin Gallery, New York, NY (2/22-4/23)

• 2021 We Were Already Gone, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY (5/14-6/5)
  High Noon, Conduit Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (5/20-6/18)

• 2020 Common Expression, Hesse Flatow, New York, NY (12/3-1/9/21)

• 2019 Knock on Wood, Hunter College, 205 Hudson Street, New York, NY (3/14-3/18)

• 2016 Down to the Wire, Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY (5/5-5/21)

Awards, Fellowships and Residencies

• 2024 Residency, NARANJO 141, Mexico City, MX

• 2023 Residency, superzoom, Ardèche, FR

• 2017 Residency, Spread Art, Artist in Residence, Detroit, MI

• 2016 Award, The J. Barney Moore Prize in Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

• 2014 Award, Smallen Award for Creativity, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY