Caroline Absher
Born 1994, USA
Lives and works in New York, USA
Caroline Absher holds a BA Art History Degree and a BFA Painting Degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. In recent years, Absher has become known for her energetic and highly intuitive paintings that shift styles and techniques in search of an ecstatic iteration of her subjects and their surroundings. Equal parts abstract formations and lyrical brushwork, her paintings draw on the artist’s time as a solo world traveller, in-depth study of art history, and her early years in New York City spent building frames of colour and texture in the third dimension on movie sets. Absher’s paintings are often full of mesmerising figures wrapped in rich atmosphere, employing transparent washes and musical strokes to articulate epic natural phenomena and human wonder. In her most recent work, images may leap out or hide for a while, depending on the day, light, and mood of the viewer. Rather than capturing a version of reality, Absher brings the transcendental and subconscious world to life, bridging the gap between external and internal, inferring a collective and infinite ephemerality. Her work is in the permanent collection of The Portland Museum of Art, USA, as well as the FAMM Mougins Museum, France. Caroline is represented by Fredericks & Freiser in New York.
Education
- 2016 BFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Selected exhibitions
- 2025 ‘The Silver Cord,’ The Journal Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (Solo)
- 2025 ‘Friends & Family,’ Rusha & Co., Los Angeles, USA (Group)
- 2025 ‘Persona,’ Fredericks & Freiser, New York, USA (Group)
- 2025 ‘When the Mountains Dance with the Ocean,’ Bode Projects, Berlin, Germany (Group)
- 2024 Independent Art Fair, Fredericks & Freiser, New York, USA (Solo)
- 2024 'Striking (Lighting) Blue,’ LOYAL, Stockholm, Sweden (Group)
- 2024 ‘Dawn to Dusk,’ Fragment, New York, USA (Group)
- 2024 ‘Blue Dream,’ Shrine, Los Angeles, USA (Group)
- 2024 ‘City Life,’ V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (Group)
- 2023 ‘Back to Oz,’ Fredericks & Freiser, New York, USA (Solo)
- 2023 ‘Apocalypse Now,’ The Journal, Patmos, Greece (Group)
- 2023 ‘The Cabin LA Presents: A Curated Flashback,’ Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, USA (Group)
