Carl retired from his forty-plus years in the fashion industry in New York and is now living his lifelong dream: painting and sketching. His college education was at the Fashion Institute of Technology where among other art courses he studied figure drawing and painting as well as fashion design and art history. He studied costume history at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is a member of the Arts Council of Princeton, the Monroe Township Cultural Commission and the Trenton Artists Workshop.
Carl’s personal favorite artists are Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth. He has been told that Hopper’s and Wyeth’s influence is apparent in several of his paintings.
Carl’s works contain a sense of mystery and form small vignettes. Perhaps even a sense of melancholia. At the same time his training in figure drawing is obvious in his depictions of female anatomy.
Carl was interviewed in the Time Off Section of the Princeton Packet as well as on local access TV in Princeton TV 30, Talk to Me.
In recent years he has had one man shows in several local dining establishments in
the general area and at the Princeton Windrows Village. He has been in group shows with the Trenton Artists Workshop exhibits at Ellarslie Mansion and Gallery 125 both in Trenton as well as the Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton N.J. Carl was also in a group show at the South Brunswick Municipal Building. In 2009 he had two paintings exhibited at the Twenty-seventh Ellarslie Open and was invited to participate in another group show at the Straube Center in Pennington NJ.
Carl retired from his forty-plus years in the fashion industry in New York and is now living his lifelong dream: painting and sketching. His college education was at the Fashion Institute of Technology where among other art courses he studied figure drawing and painting as well as fashion design and art history. He studied costume history at the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is a member of the Arts Council of Princeton, the Monroe Township Cultural Commission and the Trenton Artists Workshop.
Carl’s personal favorite artists are Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth. He has been told that Hopper’s and Wyeth’s influence is apparent in several of his paintings.
Carl’s works contain a sense of mystery and form small vignettes. Perhaps even a sense of melancholia. At the same time his training in figure drawing is obvious in his depictions of female anatomy.
Carl was interviewed in the Time Off Section of the Princeton Packet as well as on local access TV in Princeton TV 30, Talk to Me.
In recent years he has had one man shows in several local dining establishments in
the general area and at the Princeton Windrows Village. He has been in group shows with the Trenton Artists Workshop exhibits at Ellarslie Mansion and Gallery 125 both in Trenton as well as the Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton N.J. Carl was also in a group show at the South Brunswick Municipal Building. In 2009 he had two paintings exhibited at the Twenty-seventh Ellarslie Open and was invited to participate in another group show at the Straube Center in Pennington NJ.
