21st Century Realism ARC Salon

21st Century Realism ARC Salon

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Michael Paul Carson

A Hope Once Offered

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July 24, 04:20 PM GMT

Estimate

2,500 - 3,500 USD

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Michael Paul Carson

American

A Hope Once Offered, 2021


signed and dated M.P. CARSON 2021 (lower right)

charcoal on paper

sheet: 18 by 18 in.; 45.72 by 45.7 cm

framed: 30 by 30 in.; 76.2 by 76.2 cm

Acquired directly from the artist

In the collection of the Art Renewal Center, 2023

New York, Sotheby’s, 16th International ARC Salon Exhibition, Honorable Mention Drawing, July 14 – 24, 2023

S.Peralta, Lunar Codex: The Polaris Collection, enclosed in cultural time capsule on the Griffin lunar lander, launched by SpaceX, and placed on the Moon in perpetuity, launch scheduled November 2024, illustrated

Various authors, International Realism: 16th International ARC Salon, ACC Art Books, Woodbridge, Suffolk 2023, (Honorable Mention Drawing), illustrated p.358

Michael P. A. Carson is a Contemporary Representational oil painter engaged in the production of a body of works ranging from imaginative realism to outright surrealism. Informed by an enduring interest in philosophy, science, and social behavior, each of Michael’s works attempts to capture a contemplative moment of inner reflection focusing on themes of ideology, ontology, and various perversions of both. He is committed to exploring mankind’s relationship with its ideas, beliefs, technologies, and itself in confrontation with the post-industrial human condition.


Born in New Jersey and raised in the northeastern United States, Michael first studied electrical engineering, but then changed course to pursue a passion for art. He received a BFA in studio arts in 2013 with high honors, spent a few years as a life-drawing instructor, then left academia to become the creative director for the largest promotional products company in Pennsylvania. He has since returned to a full-time pursuit of fine art, studying as an apprentice at the ÁNI Art Academies Waichulis in Pennsylvania where he currently resides.

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