About Carmen Badeau
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Education
1983 - present
Texarkana College
Awards
2024
Honorable Mention
2023
First Place Blue Ribbon Award
2023
Judge's Award
2022
First Place Blue Ribbon Award
2019
Honorable Mention
2015
Honorable Mention
2013
Award of Excellance
1987
Humanities Scholarship Award
1985
First Place Blue Ribbon Award
Upcoming events
Event: Common Ground: Works on Paper
Dates: 18 Apr 2024 - 18 May 2024
Paper is the connecting element in this highly creative exhibit. Prints, collage, papier mache, watercolor, pastel, watercolor and mixed media are all welcome with paper as the "common ground".
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Previous events
Event: MasterWorks of NM Standard and Miniature Fine Art Show
Dates: 22 Mar 2024 - 14 Apr 2024
This is a juried exhibition of some of the best artist in New Mexico. It is a group of organizations compromised of Bardean LLC (Miniature Fine Art), The NM Watercolor Society, Pastel Society of NM and The Rio Grande Art Association. It showcses astounding local talent!
Event: Artsthrive
Dates: 17 Mar 2024 - 14 Apr 2024
ArtsThrive: Art Exhibition & Benefit is a juried exhibition and sale hosted by the Albuquerque Museum Foundation and held at the Albuquerque Museum.
ArtsThrive is held annually and is organized by the Albuquerque Museum Foundation, a not-for-profit organization helping to fund vital educational and exhibition programs at the Albuquerque Museum. Artwork that is selected to take part in the exhibition is for sale to the public for the duration of the show, with 60% of art sales going back to the artist.
Event: Black & White
Dates: 7 Mar 2024 - 6 Apr 2024
This is a juried exhibition of black & white art in various mediums as well as photography.
Event: Small Works Holiday Show
Dates: 6 Dec 2023 - 13 Jan 2024
A small works holiday show to find all the best art for gifts!
Event: Hispanic Art Exhibit
Dates: 14 Sep 2023 - 24 Sep 2023
This is one of four exhibition held during the New Mexico State Fair.
Event: Sweet Rides
Dates: 8 Apr 2023 - 20 May 2023
This is exhibition just for transportation art. My painting, Sweet Ride, won a Judges Award. This, and all the exhibitions at Crossland Gallery are thanks to the El Paso Art Association in El Paso, TX.
Event: Cityscapes - Art Exhibition
Dates: 1 Mar 2023 - 30 Jun 2023
Online Juried Art Exhibition through Light Space & Time March 2023
Biography
My art education started early with my parents who were both artistic, as a result, becoming a student of art at an early age was a given. Living in the southwest U.S. I am cognizant of the fact that we have a car culture that you don't see elsewhere. Here there is an abundance of old vehicles to paint, primarily due to the dry climate and lack of salt air. The metal rusts at a much slower rate thus preserving the metal on these old vehicles. So, I feel I am preserving a recorded history by painting many of the old cars and trucks. When I work, I like for them to be the central focus of the painting and the background secondary. I will often use an imaginary landscape to place the car or truck. And at other times I will have a specific place in mind.
While I do paint primarily the old vehicles, I also have done many landscapes and floral scenes as well. With all my paintings, I try to use the light and shadows to push the viewer into the scene to evoke a memory of place and time. For me, it's probably the most challenging aspect of my art. Though I have worked, and continue to work in many mediums, oil paint is my primary medium as I love the versatility and blending ability of oil paints.
