Minnesota artist Carol Lee Chase lives and paints in St. Paul. Chase spent ten years on the West Coast where she received her MFA in 1993 from the California College of the Arts in Oakland and later taught painting and drawing at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. After returning to the Midwest in 2000, she taught art at area colleges and universities and in the fall of 2007 began teaching painting and drawing at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul. In 2003 Chase received a Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Assistance Grant. In the fall of 2006, she was awarded an artist’s residency at Atelier Höherweg in Düsseldorf, Germany. For the past four years, she has served as the curator and program coordinator of Painting’s Edge, a contemporary painter’s workshop in Idyllwild, CA.
"Over the past 20 years, my painting has moved from representational imagery into imagery that is more abstract, yet it continues to reference the natural and physical world. Color, light and luminosity are primary forces in my paintings. Formal concerns, such as the qualities of space and depth in the painting itself, as well as simple acts of mark-making, have become more critical to me. As an artist, I feel it is my obligation to observe and represent my experience in the world. I have chosen to do this in an abstracted manner, one that is not literal but filtered through my own personal lens of perception." |
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