About The Artist

Carrie Alter was born in Miami Florida. At the age of five, she found her artistic voice in music. Katerina Kittredge, sculpted Carrie’s passion for the arts by teaching her piano and voice. Touring the Miami Beach music scene with her three sisters as The Alter Girl’s, music was Carrie’s day to everyday for seven pivotal years. In 1986 Katerina’s body was found tied to a tree, cold and stripped of clothing, a chartbuster introduction to the dark side of human nature. Silence shadowed Carrie’s voice, a stranger. A muted pre-pubescent child, Carrie found vitality through drawing. Thankfully, the 1980’s Miami graffiti scene took notice and she soon after became a rook in a skateboarding crew of teenaged gang markers. For the years following, Carrie spent her days with Design markers and her nights with Cannons. Her portfolio of fullmonties, burners, backjumps and black books took her to Ringling School of Art and Design where she traded in her Krylon spray for oil paint and more traditional arts training. She has been painting ever since with the knowledge that there is indeed more than one way to sing. Currently residing in Chapel Hill NC, she exhibits her work all over the country with upcoming exhibitions at Next Gallery in Milan, Italy Crisolart Gallery in Barcelona, Spain and Artspace in Raleigh, NC. Carrie teaches Art and Philosophy at Meredith College in Raleigh, NC More at: http://carriealter.com/cv.html