Caris Reid: Radical Shifts, Symbolism, and Coming Out

On Season 3, Episode 2, of The Art Career Podcast, Emily McElwreath interviews Los Angeles based artist Caris Reid. Reid's paintings are a symbolic world of blooming flowers, floating lips, and penetrating stares. Influenced by her interest in Tarot and Hypnosis, the paintings feel both familiar and mysterious, every detail is coded and ripe with meaning.  Reid has shown her paintings in solo exhibitions at Over the Influence Gallery in Los Angeles, Denny Gallery in New York, Ochi Projects in Los Angeles as well as exhibiting in two person shows with Elise Ferguson at Monya Rowe Gallery, and with Amanda Valdez at Denny Gallery in New York and Cicuit12 Gallery in Dallas.  Her work has been exhibited at the Untitled Art Fair in Miami, Art Central Art Fair in Hong Kong, Intersect Art Fair in Palm Springs, The Dallas Art Fair,  Expo Chicago, and The Spring Break Art Fair in both New York and Los Angeles.  She's been included in group exhibitions at The Landing Gallery in Los Angeles,  Sargents Daughters in New York,  Over The Influence Gallery in Hong Kong, Leo Koenig in New York, Longhouse Projects in New York, O-O in Los Angeles, SEASON  in Seattle, Ochi Gallery in Idaho, and The National Arts Club in New York among others.  Caris has led painting and meditation workshops at The Palm Springs Museum of Art and at Maha Rose in New York.  In 2016 she completed a 40 foot mural in downtown Los Angeles titled Grace and Grit.  Her work has been featured in The New Yorker, The Observer, Artsy, Vogue Japan, Vogue Mexico, W Magazine, Architectural Digest, Forbes Magazine, LALA magazine and The New York Times as well as the book “Plant Magick” from the Taschen Library of Esoterica.   This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Visit ⁠BetterHelp.com/TAC ⁠today and get 10% off your first month. ⁠theartcareer.com⁠ Follow us: ⁠@theartcareer⁠ Follow Caris Reid: @carisr Podcast host: ⁠@emilymcelwreath_art⁠ Social Media: ⁠@lilap3arl⁠ Music: Chase Johnson Editing: Zach Worden