Carin Wagner lives and works in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Wagner graduated with a degree in Advertising Design from the Art Institute of Ft. Lauderdale, winning their Angelo DiVincenzo Life Drawing award of a full term scholarship twice. Wagner works predominately in oil on canvas, with a message of environmental protection at its core.

Selected solo exhibitions include “Reflect”, Carin Wagner at the Cornell Museum of Art(2017), Delray Beach Florida, “A Celebration of Nature” at Armand Bolling Fine Art in Jupiter, Florida(2017), and” Carin Wagner” at The MAE Gallery in Delray Beach, Florida(2016).
Selected group exhibitions include “International Guild of Realism”, McBride Gallery Anapolis, MD 2022, Principle Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina (2020), “20 Artists 20x20”, Robert Lange Studios, Charleston South Carolina, (2020), “In Natural Light”, Anthony Brunelli Fine Art, Binghamton, New York,(2021).

Wagner’s awards include: South Florida Cultural Consortium grantee 2022, Artist Innovation Fellowship from The Cultural Council for Palm Beach, 2021,two time winner of the Peoples’ Choice from the Cultural Council of Palm Beach Biennale (2013, 2015),. Art Renewal Center, Finalist Landscape Category (2020) and (2021). Wagner has been an invited speaker at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, The Cornell Museum in Delray Beach and The Cultural Council for the Palm Beaches.
Vulnerable and Vanishing Trees is the name of my project to document the endangered trees of this country.
There are 116 critically endangered trees in the U.S. alone. Biodiversity is crucial for all of the life forms that each tree supports.
I have been researching, traveling and exploring forests and natural areas to photograph these vanishing trees. Each tree is an important creator of an ecosystem. I have photographed 22 species and am in the process of painting each tree in great detail on large canvases. Each tree takes approximately 6-18 months to paint. The panoramic photographs I have taken of the trees have been painstakingly excised from their backgrounds and reversed to a negative image symbolizing their removal from the environment.These towering, transparent silk banners represent a ghost forest. The paintings and photographs will travel the country, forming a beautiful visual bridge between the scientists working to protect the trees, and the communities that are affected by the loss of the trees.
This mission requires enormous amounts of time, labor and resources. I am immensely grateful to have been the recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortium and Artist Innovation Fellowship from the Cultural Council for Palm Beach. Community support means everything and allows me to continue this work.
Painting is the work I do to honor each individual species we stand to lose.
www.carinwagnerfineartblog.com documents the journey.

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