Painter Carrie Wild admits she’s having too much fun when it comes to her art. “My goal is to giggle in my studio while I paint, and I find that has been happening a lot lately,” she says. “Art should be fun.I find myself just playing sometimes. I’ll make a mess, experiment with color, I’ll use spray paint or squeegees, anything that helps me in my mark making. And it’s all so fun.”
Wild’s newest works will showcase her passion and joy for painting when they go on view at Gallery Wild in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, from September 9 through 13. 
Rendezvous in Color – Twenty Five.Zero, acrylic and gold leaf on canvas, 36 x 36”
Lives in Daydreams, acrylic and gold leaf on canvas, 48 x 72”
The show will include some of her more classic paintings, such as expressionist fields of color accented with lines of bison—best represented in the painting Love Lights the Sky, with its slow shift from purple to pink to orange as the light sinks lower—but the presentation will also highlight some of her Pop Art paintings with repeating bison forms arranged in neat rows. Two of the works, both from the Rendezvous in Color series, begin with a field of loosely painted color, after which the animal outlines are created and then the “foreground” color is applied. The effect creates bison-shaped windows that look out over bombastic oceans of crashing neon paint. In another work within the series, Rendezvous Grizzlies – Twenty Seven.One, Wild draws a gridded arrangement of bears, including Wyoming’s famous Grizzly 399, known for having a consistent litter of cubs. The animals are rendered simply with just a few curved lines, almost as if to challenge Picasso’s famous abstracted bull drawn in as few strokes as possible. 
Rendezvous Grizzlies – Twenty Seven.One, acrylic and gold leaf on canvas, 48 x 48”
Rendezvous in Color – Thirty Seven.One, acrylic and gold leaf on canvas, 48 x 30”“I do enjoy the repetition of the forms. There is a free feeling to it. I can draw them without any reference—they just happen,” she says, adding that the animal figures occasionally react to adjacent animals on the canvas, creating a net of interconnected subjects. Maybe they will be reacting to the one above it or below it, or another one will be having some kind of relationship to the one next to it. The point is that they are all different and each one has its own personality. They are all connected tissue to a larger form.” —
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