Carrie-Ann Bracco strives to create paintings that relate to others her experience of specific places and moments in time. Her most recent work focuses on unique and isolated landscapes. In 2009, she created a series of paintings depicting her travels down the Madre de Dios River in Southern Peru. In 2010 she participated in The Arctic Circle Residency, an expedition to in the Arctic off the northern coast of Norway. The paintings based on the residencies attempt to convey the ethereal quality of these mythic and fragile landscapes. Other painting series night scenes, interiors and plein aire sketches.
Carrie’s work can be seen in group shows in New York City, as well as other cities in the United States. Her work has been included in exhibits at the New York Academy of Art, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the National Arts Club. She received her B.A. from Columbia University and her Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the New York Academy of Art. Carrie was born and spent her childhood on Long Island, NY. After living abroad in Italy, England and Bolivia, she now resides in Brooklyn, NY.