Caitlin Cartwright | What Remains 
July 18 - August 15, 2025

Artist Statement

In this series of work, I’ve been thinking a lot about shadows as being something like a record of our existence. How they are like a mirror of us while being distorted. The same way the line between memory and reality can also be distorted while being a mirror who we are.. Figures and faces are obscured or covered, personal iconography is used throughout the work. These paintings invite the viewer to look into their own memories, how experiences and emotions may have been abstracted over time. What remains and what has changed.

Artist Bio

Caitlin Cartwright is a Detroit-based painter whose vibrant narrative works combine painting, drawing, and collage to explore the stories that connect people across cultures and experience.  Many years spent living and working with grassroots community work in locales such as Madagascar, Namibia, India, as well as multiple places within the US, influence both the emotional and geographical scope of her pieces.  Caitlin earned her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, and an MA  in sustainable international development from SIT, and completed a six-month residency at the Pocosin Arts School of Fine Craft in Columbia, NC.  She uses art as a storytelling tool for economic empowerment, peace building, and healing and wellness.  She has been profiled in Think TV’s Emmy winning The Art Show and her work has been featured in such publications as New American Painters, Create Magazine, and Friend of the Artist.  Caitlin’s pieces and community projects have been collected and exhibited internationally and within the United States. She is represented by Brandt Gallery.  

Inventory

1. Look Up, acrylic, painted paper, gold leaf on wooden board, 8” x 8”, 
2. Fishing, acrylic, painted paper, fashion magazine on wooden board, 8” x 8”, 
3. Eclipse,  acrylic, painted paper, floral calendar, fashion magazine on wooden board, 24” x 24”, 
4. Best Friends, acrylic, painted paper, on wooden board, 12” x 12”, 
5. Veiled, acrylic, fashion magazine on wooden board, 16” x 16”, 
6. Unbind, acrylic, painted paper, calendar on wooden board, 8” x 8”
7. Maki, acrylic, painted paper on wooden board, 8” x 8“,
8. Patricia's Orchids, acrylic, fashion magazine on wooden board, 36” x 30”, SOLD
9. Nightfall, acrylic, painted paper, fashion magazine on wooden board, 8” x 8”
10. Allies, acrylic, fashion magazine, paper on wooden board, 26” x 38”
11. Boombox, acrylic, fashion magazine, paper on wooden board, 36” x 30”
12. Sundown, acrylic, fashion magazine on wooden board, 16” x 16”
13. Peaking, acrylic, painted paper, fashion magazine on wooden board, 8”x 8”
14. Dead of Night, acrylic, painted paper, floral calendar, fashion magazine on wooden board, 24” x 18”
15.  Let Go, acrylic, painted paper, fashion magazine on wooden board, 8” x 8”