Carrie Golkin received a BFA from the Tyler School of Art, in Philadelphia, PA. Spending her junior year abroad in Rome Italy, she focused on wax to bronze and the foundry process.  Her MFA is from the Rinehardt School of Sculpture at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD. Her sculptures and master thesis explored the use of non traditional, sometimes unstable materials.  Bending thin metals and cardboard into shapes they were fastened by pop rivets.. Some of the large cardboard sculpture were installed outside, secured under tension by grommets and ropes. Made of perishable material, their decomposition was an important part of their existence.

Married to Gary Golkin, both artists have live in SOHO in New York City since 1977.

Trained in traditional methods of sculpture, Carrie has an early background in clay, wax, plaster, plastics, metals and foundry.

She went to the H.S. of Art and Design in NYC and received a fellowship to The Fine Art Work Center in Provincetown, MA.

Over time, Carrie’s involvement with materials turned from those with intrinsic value like metals to non-convention materials like fabric, rope, corrugated cardboard and paper.   Process and materials became intertwined and still are today. Her most important subject is visual intimacy, regardless of the materials or process.