Artist Member
Iceblink
Engraving, drumleaf binding, edition of 6
Sanctuary
Installation-book hybrid
Laser-cut tracing paper, wood, aluminum
Sanctuary, Zine
Offset lithography, accordion fold, edition of 300
Carrie Scanga 
BIO
Carrie Scanga’s prints take the form of artists books, installations, and works on paper. These works have been exhibited throughout the world, most recently as part of FIG Bilbao Open Portfolio 2021. She teaches printmaking at Bowdoin College in Maine. Her work has received support from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The MacDowell Colony, and residencies at the Blue Mountain Center, Fundación Valparaíso, and Artspace.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Through my art practice I reflect on personal mythologies, examine nostalgias for place and identity, and engage theories from ecology, architecture and design. I work with paper because of its ephemeral nature and its easy expression of ordinariness. Even in our post-digital society, paper is the vehicle for memories, both individual and collective. From the stories made material in printed news, to the designs of a sketch or to-do list, or to the disposable paper plates from an outdoor party, paper carries the tangible residue of shared stories. By surrounding a viewer in a room-sized book/installation or offering a handheld book experience, my art offers spatial experiences that serve as metaphors for the incorporeal states of the human experience: loss, possibility, change.