Carly Schwartz is a Pacific Northwest and Southern California-based artist whose work is rooted in a lifelong attention to beauty in landscape, architecture, light, and place. A Seattle native, she came to art early and has never stopped working across mediums.

Her formal training reflects that breadth. At Cornish College of the Arts, she studied life drawing under the respected and controversial painter William Cummings, and metal sculpture under Bob Stanton. She went on to study interior design, glass blowing, and printmaking before traveling to Denver to pursue pottery, learning slab rolling and wheel throwing. After relocating to Los Angeles and establishing an interior design practice, she continued her studies at the Art Center of Los Angeles, the Getty Museum, and UCLA, deepening her work in photography, watercolor, and acrylics.

Her photography has taken her across the globe. That travel is central to her most recent series, which captures fleeting moments in unfamiliar places, images that offer a visual escape. Her work has been featured at Ascendant New York as part of a private collection.