06/20/2024
The JCM Gallery welcomes Frankfort KY artist CARRIE SEAY and her exhibition of sculpture and encaustic monotypes, "ReMemories".
Carrie Seay is a local artist and teacher residing in Frankfort, Kentucky. She received her BA in photography from the University of Louisville in 1997. Carrie is now a mixed-media artist currently working in clay, encaustics, paint, and fiber arts/textiles. She is the owner of Mantis Creative Wellness LLC, a business dedicated to the mental health and wellness of children and adults through guided meditation and the visual arts.
Carrie has utilized art as a healing tool in her own life, improving her quality of life through her struggle with chronic depression and disassociation. She loves making things that bring healing into others homes through beauty, whimsy, and joy. Her work is inspired and influenced by many artists, such as Liza Lou, Adrian Arleo, Nicole Havekost, and many others who create thought provoking, healing and inspirational work.
Carrie is also influenced by icons and symbols from Mexican, Spanish, Aboriginal, and Russian cultures. She is drawn to these icons and symbols for the hope and healing they provide, even outside of any religious connotations most often associated with these images. Carrie is inspired by anything, in art or culture, that holds dichotomy. She loves when art elicits contemplation, discussion, and any feeling state, “good,” “bad,” or otherwise.
As a teacher, Carrie loves to facilitate people connecting with themselves in creative ways. It is through the visual arts, that she cultivates what she calls “secret healing,” whereby people are doing healing work with themselves without actively knowing they are. She loves to help empower and inspire children and adults to make things, have fun, get out of their head and into their body, and to explore the genius creator/healer within all of us.
This exhibition continues through August 17, 2024.