Bio
Carol Bivins is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work can be found in private collections across the U.S. and in the United Kingdom. Growing up in a small midwestern town, she moved to New York and began pursuing her artistic career. After spending many years living in NYC and Los Angeles and working in theater, television and appearing in such films as Defending Your Life and Groundhog Day, she moved to the Southwest.
Seeking a creative outlet, Carol turned to an old hobby, ceramics. While exploring ways to incorporate drawing and painting into her ceramic work, she found herself increasingly drawn to painting. Before long, it became a passion in its own right. After painting privately on her own for over a year, she took her first formal workshop at the Harwood Art Center in Albuquerque. Finding that experience exciting and rewarding, she followed it by enrolling in fine art classes at the University of New Mexico.
Looking for new energy, adventure, and inspiration, she relocated to Colorado in 2017. Since that time, Carol's artwork has been juried into exhibitions from coast to coast. Her work first appeared in Artsy Magazine as part of the Minimalism exhibition at ShockBoxx Gallery in CA and was included in the Los Angeles exhibition, photoLA 2020, a collection of portraits of "LA Artists and Others" by fine art photographer Jeffrey Sklan. In 2021 she was featured in VoyageLA, an online arts and culture publication in Los Angeles.
Whether working in oil, acrylics, or clay, she has always been influenced by the natural environment and events taking place around her. For Carol, painting serves as a means of wrestling with and expressing her emotional reactions to the world at large. Her process-driven, intuitively developed abstract works navigate both the play and the tension created by marks, gesture, line and a cacophony of color as they compete for pride of place on the canvas.