My current work consists of ornate compositions that use a pattern-based topographical matrix to portray ideas about land and our natural world. I use fabric, fur, flock, glitter, glass eyes and more to construct images that are simultaneously ordered, in disarray, realistic and abstract. The tapestry-like format is dense, haphazard, sometimes tangled, and bursting with energy. Seemingly chaotic and lacking of floor-plan, the terrain is teaming with activity, and like our natural world, one pocket of activity finds connection and entwines into the next.

I'm interested in conjoining imagery from our natural world with manmade materials or constructed nature. When building an artwork, the nature-based imagery is sometimes transformed until it is almost abstracted. Combining patterns found in the natural environment with abstracted shape and form, my focus is on the delicate, minute, natural systems that are often unnoticed or unseen.

Carrie Lederer is a painter, sculptor and installation artist who exhibits her nature-inspired work across the United States. Lederer is a recipient of the Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Award, and she has completed public art commissions for Facebook, The City of Palo Alto and Menlo Park, UCSF Medical Center, Hudson Valley Seed Co., Imagery Winery, and private collections. She has built site-specific installations for Turtle Bay Museum, de Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Art Source,  San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, and many others. Lederer has work in private collections including Oakland Museum of California, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Stanford Medical Center, First Western Trust Bank, and Prudential Insurance Co, NY. Her work was profiled in a cover story for MUSES, published by MSU Department of Arts and Letters, and included in New American Paintings. Lederer’s work has been widely reviewed in publications including ARTnews, San Francisco Chronicle, Diablo Magazine, and SquareCylinder.com.