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Carrie Ann Baade’s oil paintings dialogue with the past through complex iconography and imagery quotes from Renaissance and Baroque canvases. She constructs layered narratives that resemble fantastical parables as her compositions interlace the strange beauty in the unexpected, the uncanny, the disregarded, and the unconventional. Her compositions, feminist and autobiographical, weave personal and classical symbology into narratives on mortality, sexuality, personal transformation, and the darker side of human nature. www.carrieannbaade.com and to order the book https://bit.ly/3yPUDvu.