Caroline Rose is a photographer, oil painter and clothing designer from New York. She explores juxtapositions of commonly perceived contradictions and seeks to mend these contrasts. Particularly the themes she explores are identity, femininity, social media and nostalgia.
My work explores the tension between conflicting aesthetics and seeks to unify contrast as a way to reflect the complexity of my own lived experience. Through oil painting, photography, and collage, I overlap dualities—femininity and masculinity, softness and brutality, nostalgia and chaos, innocence and violence. By layering these elements, I aim to blur the boundaries between them and challenge societal structures.
I combine world building and diaristic styles to create work that speaks to me. Collage and fragmented imagery allow me to reflect various forms of self. The jumbled stitching and layering of images within my photographic assemblages, as well as my paintings represent how my personal history cannot be contained within a linear narrative. My work embraces chaos and contradiction as vital to authenticity.