Mariah Carle is a full time artist & photographer who lives and works in the Jingletown Arts District of Oakland, California. Bookings by appointment only.
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Jingletown Arts & Business Community (JABC) is a dynamic grass-roots assembly of neighborhood artists, musicians, merchants, businesspeople and other residents, come together in the spirit of cooperation and symbiosis, to foster and nurture community, to encourage and promote the mutual exchange of ideas, creativity, resources, expertise, sponsorship, productivity and patronage. In a time when our neighborhood is growing by leaps and bounds, it is furthermore our goal to stimulate in the greater Bay Area and beyond, awareness of and support for the rich and diverse population of working, exhibiting and performing artists, and other creative denizens of Jingletown.
04.21.13
Playboy TV Boarding Pass
Coming soon!!
Today we finished shooting for Playboy TV's new 23 episode travel show that will inlcude Carle Photography workign with three amazing boudoir clients.
Stay tuned for more updates when the program airs this October.
02.10.2013 The San Francisco Chronicle The Boudoir Mans Up by Tony Bravo "These days Oakland photographer Mariah Carle is just as likely to take provocative portraits of either sex at her Jingletown studio. Her first subject was a female friend looking to do a boudoir shoot in 2008; less than a year later, men starting calling with the same request. For Carle, boudoir shoots are less about nudity and overtly sexual setups and more about helping people get comfortable in front of the camera."
02.08.13
Gray Loft Gallery 2nd Annual Love Show
On display will be photographs, paintings, collage, sculpture, jewelry, textiles and handmade cards which reflect love, passion, lust, hope, romance, broken hearts, unrequited love, true love, and hearts in many shapes and forms. This is not a Hallmark Valentine show, but rather a visual dialogue about love in its many incarnations and interpretations that reflect a diverse theme of love.
12.26.2012 Peoples Grocery Oakland Ten Year Annual Report Photograph used in center spread of The Present article.
6.22.2012 The Seattle Times Seattle Erotic Art Festival marks its 10th anniversary by Michael Upchurch "Bay Area photographer Mariah Carle's "Shorts" is about defiance as much as sensuality. Her body-painted male model (a military veteran?) has one arm amputated and a rippling scar in the middle of his belly. Staring directly into the camera, he's fully owning and transcending his damage." Also I won a grant award for 'The Little Black Dress' art installation as well as having 2 of my visual art pieces, "Shorts" and "Flicking the Bean" in the show.
5.10.2012 Bay Area Reporter Considering the Penis "The Dick Show" at the Center for Sex and Culture: "The Dick Show" The Dick Show, curated by Jack Davis, a long-time Radical Faerie well known for crocheting and exhibiting penis covers, brushes against ideas of gender. Along with other Bay Area artists, Mariah Carle exhibited her nude study. "The nude study taken by photographer Mariah Carle is razor-crisp yet warm, revealing a one-armed and much-scarred man, defiant and proud."By John F. Karr
04.18.12
Dark Garden Pin Up Corset Boudoir Party
Come swing into summer with us June 10th at:
Dark Garden Corsets
We hosted a very special evening filled with corsets, photography, styling, did I mention beautiful corsets?
04.10.12 San Jose Mercury News Boudoir Photography Goes Mainstream. Boudoir Photo Essay "My oldest client was 75," says Mariah Carle, who started Bay Area Boudoir five years ago in a live-work artist's loft in Oakland's Jingletown neighborhood near Interstate 880. "She wanted to preserve her good looks, just like younger women who say, 'I want nice pictures of myself before I'm old and wrinkly.' Others, of course, are just exhibitionists and want to do it in a safe place."
04.01.12
Seattle Erotic Arts Festival
For the fourth year in a row I have been honored to be accepted in the Seattle Erotic Arts Festival or SEAF. In June of 2012 I will be exhibiting two pieces of visual art, one piece of installation art as well as teaching three classes on the marketing and selling of art as an artist.
