Cara Jaye lives and works in Bellingham, WA, where she is Professor of Art at WWU. She received her MFA from CU Boulder and her BFA from Parsons School of Design, NYC. She studied printmaking at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Jaye’s work is varied in both interest and form. Her practice is rooted within drawing and expands into various techniques including encaustic painting, collage, conventional and alternative photographic processes, installation, printmaking, and embroidery.
MFA: University of Colorado in Boulder, BFA: Parsons School of Design in New York City.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
Seattle Art Museum Gallery, Geheim Gallery Bellingham WA, , Gallery Gowoon, Gyeongnam, South Korea; PUNCH Gallery, Seattle WA; ArtsWest Seattle; University of CO, Boulder; Greymatter Gallery, Milwaukee WI; Coop Gallery, Nashville TN; Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, CA.
Jaye is interested in examining ideas of process, classification, reproduction and perfection. Treading the line between the apparent and the ambiguous, visible and invisible, sweet and repulsive, Jaye enjoys working with re-occurring dichotomies.