Artist Bio

Cary Henrie must have been born with an inherent connection to the American West, and it permeates his artwork. Born in Utah, 1961, he later moved to New York to study art at the prestigious Pratt Institute. After painting for ten years in the city, Henrie set out on his westward pilgrimage, landing in Bountiful, Utah and began capturing the beauty of his surroundings on canvas.

With each piece, the artist spends hours laying his canvas with additive and subtractive methods: sanding, varnishing, taping, adding paint, burnishing and removing layers of paint. Henrie's highly textural process lends to the depth and sophistication of each work of art.

Henrie's abstracted landscapes of the weathered west embrace vibrant earth tones and windswept horizons, capturing the vastness of this great area.

Aside from the western façade, Cary draws inspiration from Italian frescos and his time spent in New York museums.

Cary's handsomely scaled paintings convey a sense of vast, peaceful stretches of land with suggestions of the way the mind works to perceive them. His use of juxtaposed panels with the picture suggests a subject behind the subject. His translucent bands form filtered lines of demarcation between thoughts. Always, there are the planes, gradations, and shifts that keep the image in motion. Cary Henrie is a dynamic artist who goes beyond appearance and paints the idea of landscape. His work is collected by Whoopie Goldberg and Mrs. Fields of Mrs. Fields Cookies, and appeared in the film “Scary Movie 3.”