CARLY OWENS WEISS
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Carly Owens Weiss is a multidisciplinary artist based in Boulder, Colorado. As an artist, she is interested in the violence of contrasts and navigating the emotional responses that arise from the juxtaposition of the familiar with the unusual, the mundane with the irrational. The tensions between comedy versus tragedy and seduction versus repulsion greatly informs her work. In her pieces, she draws parallels between objects, the body and the experiences lived within it to create contemporary vanitas imagery that discusses modern anxieties through antiquity. Her practice focuses on the recontextualization of imagery present within the art historical canon. Using symbolism and leaning into its inherent dualities, she investigates the ways in which these representations remain applicable to a contemporary landscape, encompassing themes of bodily autonomy, selfhood and consumption. A societal gaze is implied within the work and she creates imagery based upon the physical and phrenic implications of such gaze. Often employing fragmented or compressed compositions, she depicts temporal moments emphasizing the feelings experienced within a body under the pressures of social construction and its repercussions on psychological states. Ultimately, she is confronting contemporary issues of womanhood and expectations of gender through a personal, symbolic lens. . 

Carly is currently represented by Tracey Morgan Gallery.

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Please send any inquiries to [email protected]

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Education

2013-2017
BAD Art+Design North Carolina State University, Raleigh NC, USA
2016
Royal School of Needlework, East Molesey, United Kingdom

​Selected Exhibitions- Solo

The Boys Will Get Hungry If They See Fruit, Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville NC, USA

Selected Exhibitions- Group

2025
Crafting Home, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua NY, USA (forthcoming)
2024
What Came First, Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville NC, USA
Benefit Art Auction/ Exhibition, InLiquid Art, Philadelphia PA, USA
​ARTMIX, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder CO, USA
Do I Dare Eat a Peach? (curated by Salon21), London UK 

2023
Benefit Art Auction/ Exhibition, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha NE, USA
Let Them Eat Fake II, BAD Art Presents x BWG Gallery, London UK

2022
Touch Me Baby, BAD Art Presents x The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London UK
Benefit Art Auction/ Exhibition, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha NE, USA
ARTMIX, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder CO, USA 
Let Them Eat Fake, BAD Art Presents x The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London UK
2021
MAD About Jewelry, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY USA
ARTMIX, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO USA

Residencies

2025
Open Studio Residency, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle, ME (forthcoming)
National Artist in Residence, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
2024
Penland School of Craft Winter Residency (full fellowship), Penland, NC
Lamplight Asheville, The Residency at 821, Asheville, NC
2023
Vermont Studio Center (Windgate/ VSC Fellowship), Johnson, VT
John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC

Teaching

2025
Softly Sculpted: Explorations in Hand Embroidered Soft Sculpture, Arrowmont School of Arts and Craft, Gatlinburg TN (forthcoming)
2024
Intro to Goldwork: The Art of Metal Embroidery, John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown NC, USA

Studio Assistantships

2019
Penland School of Craft (Textiles Studio), Katherine Diuguid & Nick Deford, Penland NC, USA
2017
Katherine Diuguid, Raleigh NC, USA
2016
North Carolina Museum of Art (Project Manager) Greg Lindquist, Raleigh NC, USA

Awards/ Honors

2024
Penland Winter Artist-in-Residence Full Fellowship, Penland NC
2023

Vermont Studio Center Artist-in-Residence Full Fellowship, Johnson VT
2017
Finalist- Hand & Lock Prize for Embroidery, London, United Kingdom
Project NCMA- 2nd place, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC, USA
ART2WEAR Designer Award for Excellence in Design + Production, Raleigh NC, USA
2016
Noble McDuffie Travel Scholarship, Raleigh NC, USA
2013-2017
​Charles L. Tate Scholarship, Raleigh NC, USA
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​Press

Burnaway: Review- Carly Owens Weiss, The Boys Will Get Hungry if They See Fruit at Tracey Morgan Gallery, Asheville

The American Scholar: Carly Owens- Breaking With Tradition

The Fad: Bad Art Presents Let Them Eat Fake

Rediscovering Art by Women: Interview with Carly Owens



​Galleries

Asheville, NC- Tracey Morgan Gallery

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