Clark Carroll, Artist
The award-winning artist Clark Carroll studied Painting, Art History, Design, and Philosophy at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, where he was conferred a BFA degree in 1972. He has worked in all phases of graphics including illustration, graphic design, art direction and print production. Included here was his emphasis in illustration as a main career goal and he was elected to the Society of Illustrators in New York City and to the Association of Medical Illustrators.
During his Junior year at Drake University, the art department awarded Clark a partial scholarship to study art history and painting in Venice, Italy with experts in those fields. The study of art history exposed him to many styles of famous and lesser-known artists and gave him infinite ideas on how to paint artwork with different techniques of color composition defining shapes with light also known as “chiaroscuro”.
After college he studied at the Heritage Art Gallery in South Orange, NJ under the tutelage of John R. Grabach (an oil painter in the Ashcan school style), and with Martin Gasser, (AWS watercolorist), both from Newark NJ. Mr. Gasser, formerly an art director at Prudential Insurance Company in Newark NJ, also initially studied with John Grabach. Both John Grabach and Henry Gasser are world renowned artists and are posthumously honored in the Smithsonian Institute art collection in Washington DC.
Clark’s art painting experience spans more than fifty years. His traditionally rendered works are realism in style and message. He builds drama with the use of light which he considers key to our understanding of shape and composition. Working primarily in landscapes and seascapes, he has a keen sense of place or “milieu” expressed in both a literal as well as an interpretive fashion. I hope you will join Clark in his effort to convey the “Spirit” within.