ART BIOGRAPHY
ED CARSON
243 Union St., #401
North Adams MA 01247
Tel. 413-664-8085
Ed Carson has been painting for more than 25 years. He has traveled the U.S., Canada, and Europe, painting and teaching. For nearly twenty years he and his wife Sharon, also an artist, lived in Rockport, Massachusetts where they maintained their studio and gallery. In October 2004 they moved to the Eclipse Mill Artist Lofts & Galleries in North Adams, Massachusetts. The Eclipse Mill is a former textile mill that has been converted to 40 artist live/work lofts. Resident artists participate in open studios and offer classes and public programs (www.eclipsemill.com).
Ed conducts workshops, classes, lectures, painting demonstrations for various art groups, and juries art shows. For many years he was a member of the teaching staff at the Rockport Art Association. Ed paints landscape and still life, and works both in oils and acrylics. He prefers the spontaneity and vigor of the quickly painted picture over the longer more studied approach. When he’s not painting he’s probably playing chess.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
• Rockport Art Association
• North Shore Arts Association
• International Society of Marine Painters
• Copley Society of Boston
• Academic Artists
• Southern Vermont Art Center
PUBLICATIONS:
• American Artist Magazine, “A Conversation with Ed Carson – by Charles Movalli”, January 1995 issue.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/EVENTS:
• Marine Museum at Fall River, Massachusetts
• Penobscot Marine Museum, Searsport Maine
• Hudson Valley Artists, New York
• Salmagundi Club, New York
• Whistler House Museum, Lowell Massachusetts. Invitational 1996 ‘Aldro Hibbard and the Cape Ann Painters’, featuring the work of Aldro Hibbard and nine Cape Ann artists.
• Attleboro Museum, Attleboro Massachusetts. Invitational 1998 ‘New England Impressions, Painting from Life’, showcasing seventy of New England’s painters.
• Harvard Club, Boston massachusetts. Invitational 1999 ‘New England Painters of Today’ presented by the Stobart Foundation.
• 2001 – Artist Residency. Accepted into an artist residency program in France. Provided with a house and studio for a month long residency in Dinan, in the Brittany region, at the Maison D’Artists De La Grande Vigne. Painting selected by Museum Committee hangs in the Museum’s permanent collection.
• 2006, 2007, 2008 – National Open Juried Competition, Southern Vermont Art Center
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
• In New York by Gallery Yellow, 792 Rt. 35, 10 Yellow Monkey Village, Cross River NY 10518. www.galleryyellow.com Tel. 914-763-0101
• In Vermont by The Woodstock Gallery, 6 Elm St. Woodstock Vermont.
Tel. 603-252-1633