Hook, Line & Sinker

Carly Owens Weiss is a multidisciplinary artist based in Boulder, Colorado. As an artist, Carly is interested in the violence of contrasts and navigating the feelings that arise in a place where the familiar or mundane are juxtaposed with something unusual. The tensions between comedy and tragedy, femininity and masculinity and seduction and repulsion greatly informs her work. Carly utilizes recognizable objects, often food or domestic themed, and gives the viewer access to a realm in which these objects become irrational and strange. She often draws parallels between these objects, the body and the experiences lived within them to create contemporary vanitas imagery. The investigation of surface is paramount to Carly's practice. Her pieces are rendered beautifully to momentarily distract the viewer from the dark complexities that lie beneath the surface. Ultimately, she is confronting contemporary issues of womanhood, longing and belonging and expectations of gender through a personal and symbolic lens.