Carrie Elston

Carrie Elston is a painter with deep roots in New York’s dynamic art scene, trained at Yale and Hunter College, and celebrated for her abstract paintings. She employs loose, gestural brushwork, bold mark-making, and vivid layers of color, using erasure to excavate memories and emotion beneath the surface. Her distinctive process uncovers the psychic tension between action and undoing, revealing vulnerability and resilience. Elston’s work pulses with emotional honesty, inviting viewers to sense the internal excavation and courageous self-recognition she pours into every canvas.