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Carolina Cleere, a native Floridian, first picked up a camera at 25 while
studying Fine Arts at the University of Minnesota. Since then, her life has
been devoted to exploring narrative expression through photography and
art.
Her professional career has taken her to newspapers and wire services in
Seattle, New York and Tampa where she became an editorial illustrator, a
journey that recently led her back to a full-time pursuit in fine arts.
She has been recognized nationally and internationally for both her art and
photojournalism. Cleere won the Mayor’s award at the prestigious
Gasparilla Festival of the Arts in 2009, Best of Show at the Gulf Coast
Museum of Art’s ARTE 2007 juried exhibition and Best of Show at Island
Fest Fine Art Show in 2008. Other honors include five awards for Pictures
of the Year from the National Press Photographer's Association. Also,
Cleere’s work has also been featured in Photo District News magazine and
Foto8.
In her studio, Cleere personally created a unique process of blending
images through photography and painting. She assembles her creations
from a vast collection of vintage doll heads, weathered animal bones,
frozen birds and other electica collected on her daily travels.
Today she is a full-time artist living in a century-old cigar factory loft,
surrounded by rustic props and colorful paints which she uses to blur the
line between work, art and life. |
