Carrie Cramer is an artist and designer living in Los Angeles, California. Her tactile pieces are formed through her love of texture, flowing shapes, and stretching the limits of materials. She is heavily influenced by the composition of tree trunks, bark, and the way water flows through and around their forms.
Carrie began making art in the mid-’90s while attending the University of Southern California, where she obtained a BAFA with an emphasis in oil painting and sculpture; Ken Price was her ceramic professor. Later, she explored working with metal and large sculptures which set the tone for her smaller, ceramic sculptures.
Along with a background in costume design for television, she has incorporated her love of fabrics, shapes, color, and texture into her pieces. Carrie’s consistent aesthetic shines through her metalwork, ceramic sculptures, and oil paintings, all with very organic and biomorphic shapes that she continues to happily explore and master.
Please contact Carrie to purchase her one-of-a-kind pieces or to inquire about custom projects.
Artist StatementOver the past five years, I have focused my artistic practice on ceramics, working primarily with porcelain paper clay to hand-build vessels that embody organic and biomorphic forms. Drawing from my 25-year career in costume design for television, where I collaborated with fabrics, forms, and diverse personalities. I bring an expansive sense of texture, movement, and storytelling to my work, both from my personal and professional experiences. My pieces are inspired by the fluidity of fabric, the contours of the human body, and the natural world, creating a dialogue between structure and softness.Through ceramics, I explore themes of transformation, identity, and the beauty of impermanence. Each piece serves as a vessel—both literally and metaphorically—carrying traces of my experiences and inviting viewers to engage with the tactile and emotional qualities of the work. My pieces explore the resilience of humans and the connections we share with nature.