Carly Owens Weiss

Carly Owens Weiss is a multidisciplinary artist based in 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.