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Carin Mincemoyer’s work ponders the ways in which humans try to embrace, struggle to control, yearn for, reject, and alter the natural environment. Her creative practice encompasses sculpture, installation, public art and design in diverse materials including wood, metal, discarded packaging, and live plants. Mining the visual evidence of humans' efforts to contend with the seeming chaos of nature, she employs the engineered forms of scaffolding and bridges, the image of the underappreciated dandelion, a weather icon meant as shorthand for the complexity of a thunderstorm. These works offer opportunities for heightened perception of our daily predicament, our constant navigation between civilization and wildness.
Carin’s work has been recognized with grants and awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the International Sculpture Center and the PA Council on the Arts. She has been awarded public commissions in Pittsburgh, NYC, and Philadelphia, and her work has been exhibited at venues including the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, PA, Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NY, and SPACES in Cleveland, OH. She has been an Artist in Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE and the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. She holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon and an MFA from the University at Buffalo. Based in Pittsburgh, PA, she is on the faculty of Point Park University.
Carin Mincemoyer’s work ponders the ways in which humans try to embrace, struggle to control, yearn for, reject, and alter the natural environment. Her creative practice encompasses sculpture, installation, public art and design in diverse materials including wood, metal, discarded packaging, and live plants. Mining the visual evidence of humans' efforts to contend with the seeming chaos of nature, she employs the engineered forms of scaffolding and bridges, the image of the underappreciated dandelion, a weather icon meant as shorthand for the complexity of a thunderstorm. These works offer opportunities for heightened perception of our daily predicament, our constant navigation between civilization and wildness.
Carin’s work has been recognized with grants and awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the International Sculpture Center and the PA Council on the Arts. She has been awarded public commissions in Pittsburgh, NYC, and Philadelphia, and her work has been exhibited at venues including the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, PA, Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NY, and SPACES in Cleveland, OH. She has been an Artist in Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, NE and the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture in Dawson City, Yukon, Canada. She holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon and an MFA from the University at Buffalo. Based in Pittsburgh, PA, she is on the faculty of Point Park University.
Allegheny River from Allegheny River Trail: Sept 6, 2020, charred wood on glass, 18 x 26 inches
Youghiogheny River from Confluence: May 16, 2021, charred wood on glass, 18 x 26 inches
Youghiogheny River from Confluence: May 17, 2021, charred wood on glass, 18 x 26 inches
Lake Arthur from Moraine State Park: June 20, 2021, charred wood on glass, 38 x 26 inches
Allegheny River from Allegheny River Trail: Sept 6, 2020, charred wood on glass, 26 x 38 inches
Traverse Creek from Raccoon Creek State Park: May 23, 2021, charred wood on glass, 26 x 38 inches
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Lake Erie from Presque Isle, charred wood on glass, 26 x 38 inches
Untitled Fragment 1, charred wood, 12 x 36 inches
Untitled Fragment 2, charred wood, 7.75 x 24 inches