Monica Carrier‘s first solo exhibition in New York is currently on view at Brooklyn’s A.I.R. Gallery, which is a non-profit space and was the first cooperative for women artists in the United States. Carrier’s show, entitled I love you. Yes you. I really, really love you. (You too). displays a series of new ink on paper drawings, which resemble the decorative and chaotic imagery of India’s urban landscape. The artist was struck by the simultaneous decay and ornamentation of the architectural facades that she saw and studied on a solo tour through India four years ago and brought her studio practice back to square one upon return from her trip, determined to interpret the dichotomy of imagery that she had witnessed through her own art. The resultant large scale drawings pair her interest in the basic yet unruly idea of love with organic visual interpretations of the culture that she had seen take form as both decoration and decay in India.

Monica Carrier was the 2008-2009 A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship Artist. She earned her MFA at Hunter College in New York. She studied art at Temple University in Rome, Italy and received her BFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited in New York, Philadelphia and Rome.