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Artist: Caroline Villard
Caroline Villard is an artist based in Chelsea, New York.
Her work began with sculpture and installations that used the moments, objects and feelings of daily life to express the complexities of the contemporary moment.
In 2017 she graduated from the MFA Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts. From then on she began to work mostly in oil on canvas, gathering sketches, photographs and drawn aspects of specially constructed models or diaramas to make figurative semi-surreal vignettes.
Her work was featured at The Austere gallery in Los Angeles CA, “Artificial Frills” at Cloying Parlor New York NY, “Loungecorp” at Satellite Art Fair, Miami Art Basel, Miami FL “Women’s Art Salon” at Revelation Gallery New York NY, and most recently she made work at The Church, artist residency and exhibition space in Sag Harbor NY.
She admires Caravaggio, Sargent, Hopper and Hockney among countless others. But her work draws from popular culture and contemporary sculpture as much as classical painting. People who see the work often mention Francis Bacon, René Magritte and Giorgio de Chirico.