Pardon My French: The Art
of Marshall Carbee
April 30-May 23
Slater Concourse Gallery
Opening Reception: Thursday,
May 6, 6:00-8:00pm
The Tufts University Gallery invites you to enter the imagination
of American artist Marshall Carbee in the exhibition Pardon
My French: The Art of Marshall Carbee. Hypnotic expanses of
color, otherworldly illustrations, sculptural objects that defy
classification—with an artistic lineage that can be traced
back to Surrealism, Carbee’s work resists classification,
inhabiting a unique space that alchemizes the familiar into the
visionary and fantastic.
Carbee’s vision displays a Mediterranean sensuality together
with a quirky sensibility and a dollop of subversiveness. The New-England-born
artist’s transatlantic education and individualistic irreverence
has resulted in a body of work that is irresistibly engaging. Embracing
both the figurative and the abstract, collage and sculpture, the
work on display includes objects as diverse as hand-crafted jewelry,
a paper placemat created for Burger King, and paintings made in
the ocean surf. The unabashed richness of color and texture, the
freewheeling touches of humor, the exuberance of his invention–all
inspire an immediate response.
Carbee has collaborated on film projects ranging from Julian Schnabel’s
film Basquiat to Michael Jackson’s award-winning
music video “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough.”
Born in Manchester, NH, Carbee attended the University of New Hampshire
and studied at Pratt Institute in New York and in Paris under Daniel
Milhaud. His first film, I’ll Be Yours Forever, was
nominated for the Discovery Award, presented by the New Hampshire
Humanities Council to an artist working in a new medium. Carbee’s
work has appeared in galleries internationally and is in private
collections in many countries.
This exhibition has been curated by Frederick Kalil, Tufts Office
of Publications, and Elizabeth Wylie, independent curator. |
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