“Your work has layers of meaning, yet seems to revolve around some central female focus. Could you tell us a little about the meanings that go into your work?”

“I believe good art is the effective interlocking the concept with the medium, the artist’s creative process, and how this relates to the audience.

“Each of my paintings start as a collage. The collage suits my desire to cram as much as possible into one single picture plane. What I like about painting the collage in trompe l’oeil is that I preserve the separateness of each the fragments. Through painting the layers, the complexity of the external world can be revealed, as is the internal world of personal identity.”

To read the interview in its entirety visit the Hi Fructose site.

Right: ‘The Plague: An Allegory about Dating’ by Carrie Ann Baade, 16 x 20 inches, oil on panel, 2009

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