Los Angeles-based artist Carrie Paterson conducts an experimental practice in spatial and visual art with an emphasis on the fertile nexus between the disciplines of science, art, and engineering. Her conceptually driven, multidisciplinary and occasionally collaborative artworks include installation, performance, text, drawing, and experiential, multisensory works. Since 2002, she has focused on the discourse, popular culture, science and technology of space exploration and astronautics.

Paterson is a professional writer and editor who has contributed essays, reviews and critical articles to numerous art and culture publications, including including Sculpture, Flash Art, X-TRA, Artillery: Killer Text on Art, and Artweek. She taught in universities throughout Southern California from 2001-2013, including graduate-level coursework in the visual art department at Cal State Fullerton for ten years. She is presently the Associate Editor for Artillery: Killer Text on Art. Her independent publishing company, DoppelHouse Press, specializes in art and architecture and publishes The Nomadic Journal. For DoppelHouse Press she edited Adolf Loos -- A Private Portrait by Claire Beck Loos (2011), and Escape Home, Rebuilding a Life after the Anschluss (2013), which she coauthored with her father, Charles Paterson.

Paterson holds US utility Patent No. 8,499,960 B2 with scientific glassblower Bob Maiden for an integral storage container comprised of multiple, concentric, but independent glass spheres.


contact: carriep@rof.net