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Greg Carter is a native Atlantan who was exposed to art from an early age. As a young teenager he was able to travel to Europe and while visiting relatives was exposed to European history and artwork. He also credits his father, a graphic designer, illustrator, and fine artist who has been in the art field his entire life.
Carter’s interest in the arts was maintained through high school where he decided to pursue it as a career in college. After one year at the University of Georgia in 1989, he transferred to Georgia State University in Atlanta. After working two more years at Georgia State, Greg was accepted to the prestigious Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. At Art Center he majored in illustration and graduated with honors in 1997.
Carter’s primary subjects include landscapes, cityscapes, and the figure, and he continues to work and explore these genres through experimentation in technique, texture, and paint quality, as well as through the study of such masters as George Bellows, John Singer Sargent, and contemporary Wolf Kahn and Dan McCaw. His oil paintings are so rich with paint and texture they sometimes take weeks to dry. His style is a wonderful and unique combination of representational, impressionistic and abstract, allowing the viewer to look deeper into the image. The interpretation of one viewer is often different from the other, making his work thought provoking and emotional.
In February 2002, Carter’s work was introduced to the public at the New York Art Expo where every one of his paintings sold. In the summer of 2003, Carter was chosen as one of only a handful of fine artists to travel to France and Italy to participate in a plein-air competition, of which the collection was presented at a prestigious gallery in the United States. Once again he sold out at the 2004 New York Art Expo, and in April of 2004 a one man show with 25 paintings was held at the Hrefna Jonsdittir Gallery in New Jersey.
Greg Carter feels his busy and exciting career is just beginning. He finds the best part of being an artist is that he can “search for his own identity through his art, finding something in himself that he can express on canvas and share with his collectors and admirers throughout the world.”
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