Carol Bivins- Affiliate

Carol Bivins

THE FLUID INDIGENOUS

THE FLUID INDIGENOUS

Oil, oil stick, and cold wax on paper, 26.5 x 26.5 in. (framed) / Price: $1,200

"CONTAMINATION OF A KIND"

"CONTAMINATION OF A KIND"

Mixed Media on hardboard. 25.5” x 25.5” (cradle framed) Price: $780.

"TAKING THE TRAIN"

"TAKING THE TRAIN"

Oil, oil stick and cold wax on canvas. 26” x 26” (cradle framed) Price: $780.

"LIVING IN AMERICA"

"LIVING IN AMERICA"

Oil, oil stick and cold wax on panel. 62’ x 46” Price: $5000.

"LA VIE EN ROSE"

"LA VIE EN ROSE"

Oil, oil stick and cold wax on canvas. 40”x 40”. Price $3500.

"HUE AND CRY"

Oil and cold wax on two panels (48” x 36” each) 48” x 72”. Price $5500.

"AT SEA IN THE FIELDS"

"AT SEA IN THE FIELDS"

Oil and cold wax on canvas. 40” x 40” (framed: 41.5” x 41.5”) Price: $3700.

"RHYTHM AND REPOSE"

"RHYTHM AND REPOSE"

Oil and cold wax on canvas. 41.” x 41.” framed, 41.5” x 41.5” Price: $3700.

"GREEN LIGHTING"

"GREEN LIGHTING"

Oil and cold wax on canvas. 24” x 24” Price: $980.

"GOOD MORNING"

Oil ans cold wax on panel. 30” x 30” (framed) Price: $1800.

THE FLUID INDIGENOUS

"CONTAMINATION OF A KIND"

"TAKING THE TRAIN"

"LA VIE EN ROSE"

"HUE AND CRY"

"AT SEA IN THE FIELDS"

"RHYTHM AND REPOSE"

"GREEN LIGHTING"

"GOOD MORNING"

Artist Statement

My paintings grow out of an intuitive process of layering—adding, subtracting, and responding to marks as they emerge. Drawn to pattern and rhythm, I begin without a fixed image in mind, allowing line, color, and gesture to accumulate in a kind of visual improvisation. Marks, looping forms, and shifting fields of color create a visual pulse that moves across the surface. As the painting develops, the process becomes more analytical as I decide what to emphasize, soften, or erase, allowing the painting to find its own balance—sometimes dense and turbulent, sometimes spare and meditative. The paintings explore what emerges when structure and spontaneity meet. My hope is to create complex spatial and emotional experiences that invite viewers to look and imagine at the same time. www.CarolBivins.com

Biography

Carol Bivins is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work can be found in private collections in 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 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. Dissatisfaction with glazing results propelled her to investigate drawing and painting. After working on her own for over a year, she took her first painting 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 then, Carol’s artwork has been juried into exhibitions from coast to coast and 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. In 2025, she was awarded an “Honorable Mention” in the I Love New York exhibition hosted by Agora Gallery in NYC and most recently, she exhibited her work in the 63rd Annual Juried Competition at the Masur Museum in Monroe, LA, where she received an Honorable Mention.

Always influenced by the environment around her, painting provides her as a means of wrestling with and expressing her emotional reactions to the world at large. Her process-driven, intuitively developed abstract works investigate both the play and the tension created by marks, gesture, line and color as they compete for pride of place on the canvas.