Carly Glovinski (b. 1981, Dover, New Hampshire) makes work that explores the make-do, resourceful attitudes associated with domestic craft and placemaking. Rooted in observations of her surrounding environment and a curiosity about natural and human-made systems, her work embraces a slip in perception and employs a wide range of materials. The elements of time and place are often embedded, and the rhythms of repetitive processes, either invented or borrowed, are a guide.
She received her BFA from Boston University and has had solo exhibitions at Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA, and Colby Museum of Art, Maine. She has been awarded residencies at Kenyon College (Ohio), Surf Point (Maine), and Canterbury Shaker Village, and grants from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation and the Blanche Colman Trust. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions, both nationally and internationally, and published or reviewed in publications including Two Coats of Paint, Colossal, New American Paintings, ArtMaze Magazine, and Hyperallergic. Her work is held in prominent collections such as the Farnsworth Art Museum, Cleveland Clinic, and Fidelity Corporation. Carly lives and works in Southern Maine, where she tends the Wild Knoll Foundation Garden, an ongoing living work. In the summer of 2025, she will complete her first large-scale public work in Boston, MA.