About Carin Ingalsbe
THE SHORT
Carin Ingalsbe is a photographer and a ceramicist.
While taking pictures is a daily vocation, her current focus in clay involves finding ways to blend stoneware and porcelain. Her focus is letting intention change all of the time, which is way harder than it sounds. She engages in a practice of moving from how the object is made, to an exploration of materials and then to the object itself.
She works out of a studio in Miami, where fending off the iguana who shares the veranda with her work wheel. This is part of the tropical routine.
He is a big, handsome Wile E. Coyote and always has his way.
Whatever he says, she is compelled to believe him.
THE LONG
I was born in the Bronx and ended up in Miami after a long “life loop” with my husband and two sons in Boston and Vermont. I’ve moved through various disciplines, beginning with a focus in painting and printmaking at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts into a long stint in the photographic world. I currently have the privilege of working with clay. Each discipline shift is very natural and they all intertwine.
I draw every day.
I take pictures every day.
I work with clay every day.
I am devoted to the importance of pivoting with anything that wants looking at.
Studio is a moving meditation. On the best of days, it is a riding stream of consciousness.
Working with clay in particular is time travel and a privilege. All that the collective “we” has been before is in the clay.
My interest in the perceived value of things is perfectly suited to working with clay.
Things that I make are, in essence, dirt and a thought. Thoughts are fleeting, but time spent.
Making the pieces quantifiably all.
I am not an artist who shuns beauty; it is nourishment and it is everywhere.
Our life in Miami is one of respect for curiosity about everything and our deep devotion to street cats. We live with animals and think about them all of the time.
And like my work with clay, it is an honor to get to know them all.
GROUP SHOWS
Various juried shows at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1982-83
“Painters Progress”, Federal Reserve, Boston. 1983 “School of the Museum of Fine Arts: Present and Future”, Harcus Gallery, Boston 1985
“Seventh Annual Drawing Show”, Boston Center for the Arts, Mills Gallery, Boston 1986
“New England Women Artists: 1987”, Northeastern University Gallery, NU, Boston 1987
“Religious Icons: Opening Exhibition”, Gallery 69A, Worcester, Ma 1987
“Two Man Show”, Mount Wachusett Community College, Gardner, Ma 1988
“Women and Watercolor”, Transco Energy Company, Houston, Texas 1988
“Springfield Annual Juried Exhibition”, Springfield, Ma 1988
“December Sale”, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Ma most years between 1984-2007
“Lexington Education Foundation”, Lexington, Ma 2005
“Big Town Gallery”, Group Exhibition, Rochester, Vermont 2007
“Specimen Exhibition”, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 2015 Artists’ Talk October 1, 2015
“Five Directions”, Five Miami Ceramicists, Fooq’s, Miami 2018 The Big Tiny, Rocky Neck 2023
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
“Carin Ingalsbe”, Flora, Arlington, Ma 2005
“Carin Ingalsbe: Karinska” New York State Theatre, Lincoln Center, NY October, 2006
“Carin Ingalsbe Photography”, Boston Ballet, Boston, Ma 2007
“Carin Ingalsbe”, Lanoue Gallery, Boston November 2010
“Little Sheba” new work at Lanoue Gallery, Boston May 2015
CURRICULUM ESTABLISHMENT + INSTRUCTION
Design Principles Spring 2000
The Art of Vision, Advanced Senior Studio, Autumn 2000
New York City Ballet, “Candy Cane” licensed Christmas card 2013
New York City Ballet, Cuff Bracelet Image from “The Cage”
Available in the NYCB Giftshop 2015-present
AWARDS
“Blanche E. Coleman Trust” awarded grant for furthering of creative work. Boston, Ma 1986
First in Springfield Annual Juried Exhibition, Springfield, Ma 1988
PHOTOGRAPHY PLACEMENT
The Plaza Hotel Suites, New York
The Londoner, Macau
EDUCATION
University of Florida, Gainesville 1978-80
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis 1981
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1982-83
Tufts University, Medford BFA 1982-83
BOOK JACKET ART
The Juliet Club by Suzanne Harper
BIBLIOGRAPHY
”Boston Globe”, Painters Progress, Christine Temin. 1983
“Art New England”, Massachusetts: State of the Artists, Amy Lighthill. October 1984
“Worcester Magazine”, A New Exhibit, A New Gallery, Christine L. Pappas. April, 1987
“Worcester Telegram”, Two Boston Artists”, 1988
“The Material World”, Stacy Kors, November 1989
“New York Times”, ….And All Through the House, December 1990
“New York Times”, Some of Our Favorite Things, December 1991
“The Improper Bostonian”, Hat in the Box, Mopsy Strange Kennedy, March 1992
“The Boston Globe Magazine”, Hot Lines, Carol Flake, February 1993
“Lear’s”, The Juice on Orange County, Robert Scheer, May 1993
“House Beautiful”, Style Beat, Jeff Macnamara, 1993
“Breakfast at Barneys”, Mitchell Owens 1994
“Objects de New York”, Brian Hagiwara 1994
New York City Ballet 2007
“katrinabergblog.com” discovery-Carin Ingalsbe Photography 2008
“Popular Photography”, Ugly Made Beautiful, Jay Mallin , 2008
“arstyforager” artsy FASHIONweek, As The Fabric Folds: Carin Ingalsbe Lesley Frenz November 3, 2011
“WorldPress” Carin Ingalsbe, Lorraine Glessner 2013
“Red Wolf Journal” Cover Art, Issue 3 2014