left: The Chicken, 2010, gouache on paper, 20x16"
center left: The Buffalo, 2010, gouache on paper, 20x16"
center right: The Goat, 2010, gouache on paper, 20x16"
right: The Pheasant, 2010, gouache on paper, 20x16"

Carrie Marill's disarming gouache on paper drawings represent a variety of approaches to the curiosities of urban life in the context of the natural world.

Her most recent body of work, The Splendid Table, is a personal project reflective of the artist's meditations on the factory farming of commodified animals
that are a regular staple of the American diet as well as the exotic fare offered more and more on restaurant menus.
On a recent trip to Italy, Carrie Marill, a vegetarian for over fifteen years, indulged in local culinary haute cuisine, most of which featured farm and exotic
animals.
Upon returning to her studio in Phoenix, Arizona, Marill turned her guilt, experience and long regarded principles into a suite of fourteen portraits
each featuring an animal she's eaten. Named for the American Public Media talk show hosted by culinary writer Lynne Rosetto Kasper, The Splendid Table
looks at our dinner plates with empathy, humor and a pinch of salt and pepper.

Selected Exhibitions:

2008  Colorado Arts Ranch Residency, Steamboat Springs, CO
2008  Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY
2007  The Trunk Space, Phoenix, AZ
2007  sizspace, Culver City, CA
2007  Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ
2005  Platform Gallery, Tucson, AZ
2005  Howard House Gallery, Seattle, WA

www.carriemarill.com