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Bill Carman: Optical Allusions @ Gallery Nucleus

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American artist Bill Carman (featured) has a new exhibition entitled “Optical Allusions” now on at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, California.

Carman’s award-winning work straddles the line between narrative and surreal.  A trained artist having earned an MFA in fine arts from Brigham Young University, Carman has since achieved notable success with his imagery as well as garnering an impressive list of clients including Macmillan Publishing, Random House, and LucasArts.  His achievements include the children’s book,What’s That Noise?  In addition, he also currently teaches art at Boise State University. (bio from Gallery Nucleus)

Optical Allusions runs through June 3, 2012. To see more works from this exhibition, visit Gallery Nucleus. To see other works by Carman, visit BillCarman.blogspot.com.

Bill Carman: “Unbalanced” @ Animazing Gallery

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American artist Bill Carman has a new exhibition entitled “Unbalanced” opening today at Animazing Gallery in New York City.  “Carman’s paintings feature elements inspired by the fantastical and dark images of Hieronymus Bosch, and are executed with the precision of Albrecht Durer. His sense of humor is evident in this collection of nearly 50 mixd-media pieces on copper, wood, and paper. His pieces are nebulous, skirting and defying traditional art genres. “I live on the fringe of mainstream fantasy/sci-fi, dip a toe into surrealism, flirt with symbolism and even occasionally scratch the surface of mainstream illustration…”

Carman has worked as a designer, illustrator and art director at universities, ad agencies, publishers, and large corporations. Since graduating from Brigham Young University with a BFA in visual communication/illustration and later with an MFA in painting, he has consistently free-lanced and exhibited. Carman is currently a professor teaching illustration and drawing at Boise State University.

 “Unbalanced” runs through November 30, 2011. To see more works from this exhibition, visit Animazing Gallery. To see other works by Carman, visit BillCarman.blogspot.com.

Bill Carman: Painting/Illustration

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Made a Baby © Bill Carman

American illustrator/painter Bill Carman was born in Korea, grew up in Northern California and currently lives and works in Boise, Idaho. He has a BFA in Visual Communications/Illustration and an MFA in painting from Brigham Young University. In between teaching at Boise State University and exhibiting, Carman likes to fish.

To see more of Carman’s work visit BillCarman.blogspot.com.  You can also check out his website through the Boise State University, though he doesn’t update it as often as the blog.