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Carly Sheehan
Can’t Go Over, Can’t Go Under
Straight steel gates, carpet padding, moving blankets, stickers, memory foam, lavender, wool, and water-based paints
Varying Dimensions
2025-2026

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Cowpine Theater is pleased to present Back This Way, an exhibition of new works by Seattle-based artists and educators Andy Fallat and Carly Sheehan.
The exhibition will be held on September 7th from 5pm to 7pm. There will be a special performance by Andy Fallat, so please come early.
Cowpine Theater is located at the intersection of 12th Ave NE and NE 58th St in Seattle, Washington. - Live Pracklers Crew by @c4rlota

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Documentation for ‘ We Left It Like This’ is on the website: link in bio.
Thank you @everythingtimestudio for the beautiful photographs
And thank you to everyone who made it out for the opening! The work is up through May 17th , gallery hours by appointment 🖤 taken in Columbia City by @c4rlota

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Carly Sheehan
We Left It Like This
April 19 – May 17, 2026

Double Garage Gallery presents We Left it Like This, new works by Carly Sheehan, on view April 19 through May 17, 2026.
An opening reception will take place from 2–4pm on Sunday April 19, and the gallery will be open by appointment throughout the run of the exhibition.

We Left It Like This responds in collaboration with the current state of the space, which is being used for storage following a house fire. The carport-turned-gallery remains exposed to the elements, with ivy growing through the back and waterlogged lumber, doors, and cabinets filling the bays. Rather than clearing or concealing these conditions, the installation engages them as part of the work.
Unstretched paintings are fitted into the garage openings, with cutouts that allow stored materials to remain visible and, in some cases, extend through the works themselves. The paintings are built on canvas through cycles of saturation, sanding, peeling, and layering, using water-based paint alongside dried flowers, plastic drop cloths, styrofoam, and other debris gathered from the site. Drawing from damaged family photographs following a house fire in Sheehan’s childhood, the work suspends memory, material, and environment without attempting to repair or resolve them.

Carly Sheehan (b. 1992, Massachusetts) is a painter and printmaker based in Seattle, Washington. She earned her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art in 2020. Recent exhibitions include Call Me Superstitious at Specialist Gallery and CYCLES at Sand Point Gallery in Seattle, and Obsessed with Forgetting What It Is at North Loop West Gallery in Los Angeles. She was an artist-in-residence at Surf Point Foundation in York, Maine in Fall 2025, and is currently completing a three-year appointment as a Visiting Artist and Full-Time Lecturer in Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking at the University of Washington.

Photo Caption: Red Onesie Baby Photo c. 1993 damaged in 2006 fire. Image courtesy of Carly Sheehan taken in Columbia City by @c4rlota

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Carly Sheehan, one of our art lecturers, has work in our Sand Point Gallery! This body of work began during her residency at Surf Point (@surfpoint.me) in York, ME this past fall and has continued to develop in her studio here on campus. CYCLES includes collaged works of drawings, monotypes, and paintings influenced by the Maine coast, the tide schedule, Beverly Hallam’s archives, and her time in Seattle over the past year.

We invite you to a casual reception tomorrow: Thursday, January 29, from 5–7pm at Sand Point Gallery. Go to our website and search Sand Point Gallery to find directions.

Image 1: “Green Screen Landscape” 2026, 36” x 30”, Acrylic, pull tabs, and oil on canvas.
Image 2: event info
Image 3: work in progress at sand point studio
Image 4: studio at @surfpoint.me

Photos courtesy of the artist. by @c4rlota

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9 months ago

The gallery is open until 5 today and from 12-5 tomorrow❣️”Triangle Projects Presents!” is on view through February 7.

Carly Sheehan
These too can hold you, 2025
Acrylic, zip-ties, nitrile gloves, and baby’s breath on canvas
18 x 22 in.

Emile Mausner The Heels She Wore, 2022 Watercolor on rag mounted on panel in zebrawood frame
9 x 12 in.

Jenny Gagalka
The Big One 1, 2025
Chalk pastel on paper
18 x 24 in.

Sterling Wells
Bringing the tide inside (Ballona Creek), 2024
Found bicycle, watercolor on paper, wood, hardware, tidal residue
88 x 31 x 63 in.

Images courtesy Josh Schaedel taken in Chung King Road by @c4rlota

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Specialist presents “Call Me Superstitious,” new work by Carly Sheehan (@c4rlota).

The works in “Call Me Superstitious” are embedded with flowers given by friends and past lovers, gloves left behind in the studio, zip ties cut from what they held, bingo cards from a summer spent hoping to win. The residue of lived experience is woven into the structure. These works are about cracks, both physical and emotional: in the systems, in the grids, in the hearts, in the sidewalks—the ones we were told to step over.

These works don’t avoid the cracks, but notice what gathers inside them. Moss. Debris. Wishes. Grief that doesn’t fit neatly into stages. Superstition becomes a form of care; not logical, but comforting. We pull petals from flowers hoping for answers. We step carefully to protect our mothers. We knock wood. We tuck things into paint to try and remember.

The works push off the wall with steel arms, stand upright, and have soft interiors. They’re built from the materials we use to make homes: memory foam, carpet padding, thresholds, and barriers, embedded with notes on how to stay safe there. Objects that once brought comfort, served a purpose, or offered a warning.

Now, these surfaces echo pavement, concrete, rebar, skin, Play-Doh, static screens brought to life through accumulative textures and marks. Kneading, patching, mending—returning, returning, returning. They live as residue and record. They are generous. They hold secrets. They offer a space to consider what it means to preserve something, not forever, but for now.

Carly Sheehan (b. 1992, Massachusetts) is a painter and educator based in Seattle. She holds an MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art (2020) and a BFA in Art Education and Painting from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2014). Sheehan is a full-time lecturer in the Painting, Drawing, and Printmaking Department at the University of Washington. Her work has been exhibited in grassroots and artist-run spaces including Triangle Projects and North Loop West in Los Angeles. In 2024, she joined the artist team at Specialist Gallery, where she contributes to organizing exhibitions. taken in Specialist by @c4rlota

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Carly Sheehan’s HOLE HOLE HOLE HOLE alludes to memories of a childhood spent in the 1990s. The flecks of color in the work come from the inclusion of artificially dyed baby’s breath, the saturated colors and dispersion of which evoke images and things consumed as a child—sprinkled confetti birthday cakes, jawbreaker candies, and Fruity Pebbles.

Carly Sheehan
HOLE HOLE HOLE HOLE, 2025
Acrylic, confetti dyed baby’s breath, and a
black-eyed susan on canvas and carpet
padding
18 x 19 in.

Image courtesy Josh Schaedel taken in Chung King Road by @c4rlota

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Carly Sheehan scavenges disparate materials sourced online and in her community to build dense, tactile works on canvas. For works like “This spot still knows you,” Sheehan cut, sewed and stuffed memory foam into stretched canvas and then layered flowers—dahlias and gladiolus from different arrangements that were sent to her—in acrylic paint and cochineal and indigo pigments. Sheehan’s paintings resemble upholstered-like objects that carry a fleshy, bodily quality and conjure ideas around how we hold and store memory.

Carly Sheehan
This spot still knows you, 2025
Acrylic, gladiolus, dahlias with cochineal
and indigo pigments on canvas stuffed with
memory foam
28 in. x 36 in. x 3 in. taken in Chung King Road by @c4rlota

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The gallery is open from 12-5 this Thursday through Saturday. Pop by to see “Obsessed with forgetting what it is” which runs until June 16th!

508 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Images courtesy @joshschaedel taken in Chung King Road by @c4rlota

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Opening tomorrow night, May 16th, from 6-8!! A huge thank you to Carly Sheehan @c4rlota and Rebecca Shippee @rebeccashippee for sharing their incredible work and thinking with us.

Come celebrate tomorrow night!

508 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Image courtesy the wonderful @joshschaedel
And install help courtesy @bricejames_ taken in Chung King Road by @c4rlota

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North Loop 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵 is excited to announce “Obsessed with forgetting what it is,” a two-person show of new work by artists Carly Sheehan and Rebecca Shippee. The exhibition will open in Los Angeles on Friday, May 16th. Come celebrate with us at the gallery from 6-8 that evening!

LA-based Shippee will exhibit site-specific paintings made to span the width of the gallery’s walls alongside Sheehan’s works on canvas that include materials ranging from memory foam, flowers, unfiltered natural pigments like indigo and cochineal to carpet padding. Close personal friends, Sheehan and Shippee share an accumulative and process-based approach to painting, creating works that are the product of constant revisiting.

A huge thank you to Rebecca and Carly for sharing their incredible works. Can’t wait to celebrate on the 16th!

North Loop 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘵
508 Chung King Court
Los Angeles, CA 90012

“Obsessed with forgetting what it is”: Carly Sheehan & Rebecca Shippee
May 16 - June 16, 2025
Opening event: May 16, 6-8
Closing event: June 14, 2-4

Open hours:
Thu - Sat, 12-5pm
And by appointment
gallery@northloop.art taken in Chung King Road by @c4rlota

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