Carrie Mae Smith
Carrie Mae Smith (b.1974, Derby, CT) lives and works in upstate New York. Inspired by antiques and food culture, Smith often paints her personal collections of vintage china, historic objects, and culinary delicacies. The daughter of a butcher, she supported her artistic practice early on working as a private chef on Martha’s Vineyard. Smith’s works serve as symbols of class, labor, friendship, tradition, love, and utility.
She holds an MFA and visual arts from the University of Delaware (2013). Smith has received numerous awards and grants, including the Clowes Fellowship full scholarship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT; Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Inc. Artist Grant; and the Ruth and Harold Chenven Foundation, Artist Grant. She has exhibited her work internationally and nationally, with recent solo exhibitions at Lowell Ryan Projects, Los Angeles, CA; the Locust Grove estate, Poughkeepsie, NY; and the Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA. Her works are included in numerous private and public collections.
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Mike Casey
Michael Casey (b. 1952, Pearl City, Hawaii) lives and works in Bovina Center, New York. For more than five decades, Casey has pursued a painting practice that encompasses still life, landscape, and portraiture. Deeply informed by his lifelong engagement with the histories of art and literature, his work combines close observation with a sensitivity to narrative, memory, and human relationships.
His still life paintings often draw upon the objects of everyday domestic life. Seemingly ordinary arrangements of food, vessels, and household objects become subtle reflections on the poetry of connection. Across all genres, Casey’s paintings are distinguished by their nuanced handling of light, color, and composition, as well as their ability to find emotional resonance in the familiar and overlooked.
Casey received a BFA from the Museum Art School in Portland, Oregon, in 1973 and co-founded the Purple Daggers Gallery in Portland the following year. He moved to New York City in 1976 and has since exhibited his work in galleries and group exhibitions throughout New York State, including presentations in Brooklyn, Andes, and Margaretville. In 2002–03, he was a Fellow Traveler at the American Academy in Rome. His work is held in numerous private and corporate collections, including those of The Capital Group, Bulgari, the writer and collector Michael M. Thomas, the novelist James Salter, and the art critic Peter Schjeldahl.
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