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| 2007- CURRICULUM VITAE PAGE 1 PAGE 2 PAGE 3 Expressing his visual perspective, Carson Grant painted large oil canvases and constructed many art installations in alternative exhibition spaces as part of the 1970's East Village Art movement. Recognized for excellence by Leo Castelli, Carson's installation of living sand sculptures 'Coney Island Bathing Beauties' in the "The Coney Island Art Show 1981," and his triptych 'In Life Turmoil' in the famed "Time Square Show" gained notoriety. His one-man exhibition called "Nature-Nuclear" 1979 provoked quite a stir when he constructed a large climb-up-into 'scarred Mother Earth Uterus' - post nuclear with her next distorted generation traveling down her maimed fallopian tubes into her contaminated womb (30' x 40'), encouraged the viewer to consider alternative energy sources to protect our environment. (Times: 11-30-79) The seventies brought an awareness of our environment, pollution and nuclear waste contamination (3 mile Island & Chernobyl). For two summers, Carson hitch-hiked and walked the entire USA photographing damaged natural reserves. Marching with the Sioux Indian in South Dakota, as part of the 'No-Nukes' concert tour 1979 MUSE, Carson returned to NYC to establish an award-winning not-for-profit organization, Environmental Artists United (EAU), sponsored by 'Avon' and 'America the Beautiful Fund' Foundations, which promotes art educational exhibits focusing on our environment and conservation. One honored exhibition 'Four Elements: Fire-Wind-Earth-Water' for "Earthday 1980" received special attention from American Express during the now famous event. Carson was one of the founders of "The Westside Arts Coalition", NYC, helping to preserve the Upper Westside artistry, neighborhood, the Symphony Space, and actively 'worked-the-soil' to create the Westside and the Riverside Park Community Gardens. As an adjunct faculty member of College of New Rochelle, Carson aided the efforts to bring Rosa Parks to the renamed Harlem campus. Graduating as a Psi Chi Honors Sociey recipient in Psychology & an elected Psi Chi president at CUNY- Hunter College BA program, Carson's master thesis on 'The therapeutic validity of Drama/Art Therapy: traditional Freudian with video feedback', (Sociodrama), earned him a MA (Summa Cum Laude) at U.Conn, and postgraduate work at Columbia U. Carson presented his research at Georgetown's Drama Therapy Association convention 1985, which was acknowledged as an important contribution to the DT field in NYU's Dr. Robert Landy's book, "Drama Therapy: Concepts and Practices" p.154, 1986. Wanting to paint in the new electronic technology of the 80's, Carson attended and taught at Pratt University, NYC to enhance his knowledge of computer graphics and digital editing. He worked with innovative companies, as an animator/cg artist/editor/programmer helping to form the late 1980-90's advancements in computer graphic applications using AT&T- NASA software, creating formats for the premier of CD-Rom and internet technology, which applied many color principles Carson helped to develop with a team of artists for NYC companies as: Fusion, Advanced Graphics, Exhibit Technologies, Carabineer, and Ogilvy-Mathers. Painting on the computer tablet, Carson created animations for the 'Sony's Time Square Video Board'. The Ayer Advertising campaign 'Breakthrough with the Unexpected" animation of an egg cracking to release a butterfly, captured Ad Week's (2-25-91) and business's imagination in CGA as a profitable advertising tool. IBM, Intel, Kodak, DeBeers, Shell and American Express followed suit by asking Carson to create animations for their multi-media identities and exhibitions. National Geographic's 'Interactive Gallery' gave the "Global Access" to many of Carson's images and animations. |
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