Carrie Ida Edinger is an American artist, who is exploring how media, the creative process, and multidiscipline research methods can be utilized to visually represent a change or shift in a place or subject matter. Everyday transitions have been a component in the production of her projects. The projects begin with fieldwork and related observational methods that aid in the understanding of a multi-layered narrative about the place or subject matter. This style of contemporary documentation is in the form of photography, drawing and video. The visual documentation and specific social and cultural research is used as a resource toward the forming and completion of the body of work. Crossing and blurring disciplinary boundaries has enabled Carrie to create art and examine the particulars to the transitions of everyday elements from American culture.
Carrie was born in Alpena, Michigan and she received her Master of Fine Arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art with a focus in PrintMedia. In addition, she has a Master of Arts in Contemporary Art Theory with a concentration in visual and material culture from the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Her studies with visual and material culture are based in an interdisciplinary approach with art projects, museum studies and curation methods.
Her interdisciplinary approach continues to offer many opportunities with collaborations and individual projects. A few of these opportunities are: Shadow Portraits 2022 solo exhibit at The Brinton Museum, New Beginnings: GMOs vs. Organic inclusion in The Print Center’s 93rd Annual, Sight, Sound, Suburbia inclusion in the Multimedia Anthropology Now online exhibition and collaborating with On The Line project with University of California, Riverside and Riverside Public Libraries. Various Publications include An Artist’s Interdisciplinary Practice published in The International Journal of New Media, Technology, and the Arts, The Human Experience of Crooked Data for Media-N Journal and an Opinion Columnist for Anthropology News - column entitled: Crossing Disciplines: Art and Anthropology. Presentations include 6th Biennial Grant Wood Symposium: Art in Public, Impact10 International Multidisciplinary Printmaking Conference, and University of California, Riverside Department of Anthropology Lecturer. Other awards include Wyoming Art Council Professional Development/ Career Advancement Grant and Summer Residency at Yaddo.
