The artist creates pastel drawings and paintings where studio and domestic life merge into one. Impulsive, direct drawings from her home transform into active, colorful abstractions. These richly pigmented pastels reference and distill the artist's daily world. Submerged bits of fringe, wrought iron, writing, and panhandles become clues of the day's events. Employing a call-and-response technique between herself and the artwork, Case sees homelife comprised of countless domestic routines as an active, creative world.

Carolyn Case lives and works in Baltimore, MD. She earned her MFA from MICA's Mount Royal School of Art in Baltimore, MD (1997), and her BFA from California State University in Long Beach, CA (1994).

Case is in the permanent collection at The Baltimore Museum of Art. She has mounted recent solo exhibitions at Taymour Grahne Projects in London, UK (2022); Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, VA (2021); Asya Geisberg Gallery in New York City, NY (2020); Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI (2019); and Lux Art Institute in Encinitas, CA (2019).

She is currently exhibiting in Los Angeles at La Loma Projects Above the Sea and Below the Sky, and is in a group show in Philadelphia at Blah Blah Gallery. She has participated in two-person and group exhibitions such as Form and Gesture: Impressions of Movement at Interloc Projects in Rockland, ME, and the Silber Gallery at Goucher College in Baltimore, MD (2022); Art in Embassies, at the United States Embassy in Managua, Nicaragua (2019); People & Places at the BWI Airport in Baltimore, MD (2018).

Case has participated in residencies at the Lux Art Institute (2019), the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2022), the School 33 Art Center (2004-2001), the Kanoria Centre for the Arts (2001), and the Vermont Studio Center (2015).

Publications such as Artforum, ARTNews, The Baltimore Sun, New American Paintings, and Two Coats of Paint featured her work.