PROFILE OF CARLTON D. MURRELL
Carlton D. Murrell has been painting for over forty years with well over one hundred exhibitions to his credit. As a child growing up in Barbados, Carlton began exploring his artistic talent by drawing and painting the various lifestyles of his Island nation. He began his painting career at 18, inspired by the richness of Caribbean living and the world beyond. He traveled to many distant places in search of a universal sense of art, which led him to immigrate to capital city of art – New York City. While there, Murrell was awarded a scholarship to pursue additional advanced studies at the Art Students League. He later attended the Pan American School of Fine and Pel’s School of Commercial Art and Illustration. He has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, the National African American Museum, the United Nations and Howard University, as well as numerous galleries throughout the United States.
Master Impressionist painter Claude Monet tremendously influences his painterly style. Drawing on the influence of European Impressionist painters, Murrell’s layering of paints, short strokes and usage of color emerges with a unique painterly style. His ability includes a rare understanding of the effects of light on color. Murrell combines his rich Caribbean heritage with traditional island and urban living to impact upon the viewer thought provoking visual messages.
His works hang in permanent collections of Carver Federal Savings Bank, the Copper Corporation of Chile, South America, Howard University, The Central Bank of Barbados, among others. Mr. Murrell has to his credit received numerous awards, prizes and citations. He has served as curator at art exhibitions at the Community Gallery which was formerly located within the Brooklyn Museum and the Skylight Gallery. He also works his skills as an art consultant and art teacher. His work can be found in the homes of many collectors in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe and South America.
MEDIA CREDITS
Channel 13 PBS Documentary
CBS Television Affiliate, Hartford, CT
The New York Times
New York Daily News
Hartford Courant Newspaper
Art Speak Magazine
The Amsterdam News
Barbados Nation Newspaper
Barbados Advocate Newspaper
Manhattan East Art News
The Caribbean News
The Valentine Magazine
Plight of the Caribbean Artists - Film
COMMISSIONS
Barbados Consulate for former Consulate
Children’s Aid Society
General Paintings and Illustrations for Prentice Hall Publishers
Mural for Brooklyn Spring Creek Cultural Center
Many Private Commissions
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Audubon Art Show
Howard University
Pump House Gallery, Hartford, CT
Barbados Museum and Historical Society
Hunter College
Salmagundi Art Club, NY
Brooklyn Museum
John Jay College
Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Con Edison
National Black Fine Art Exhibition
York College, Jamaica, NY
Great Neck Library
Art Off The Main
Federal Plaza Building, NY
Pace University, NY
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Barbados Museum and Historical Society
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza, Brooklyn, NY
Carver Federal Bank, Harlem, NY
Copper Corporation of Chile, South America
Howard University, Washington, DC
Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn, NY
Prentice Hall School Division, New Jersey
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Harlem, NY
The Central Bank of Barbados
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005
Barbados Consulate, NY
2003
Brooklyn Library (Caribbean Literary and Cultural Center)
2002
409 Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2002
Brooklyn Library (Caribbean Literary and Cultural Center)
2000
Clinton Hill Simply Arts Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1999
Satta Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1995
Sonzi’s Gallery, NY
1995
Clinton Hill Simply Arts Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1994
Savacou Gallery, NY
1994
Park House Gallery, Barbados
1990
Caribbean Creation Gallery, Cambridge, MA
1988
Cellar Gallery, Nyack, NY
1986
Represented Barbados at United Nations Members Tea Day, NY
1976
Studio 5 Art Gallery, NY
1972
Sandy Lane Hotel, Barbados
PUBLICATIONS/ARCHIVAL BIOGRAPHICAL BOOK LISTINGS
2010
Who’s Who in American Arts
2010
International Who’s Who of Entrepreneurs
2010
Marquis, Who’s Who in the East
2007
McDougal Littell Literature - American Literature
2005
L’Enfant Noir – Classiques Hatier, Paris, France
2004
Who’s Who in Industry
1997
International Who’s Who
1995
Marquis, Who’s Who in the East
1994
Prentice Hall Literature Gold -Paramount Edition
1994
Prentice Hall Literature - The British Tradition
1994
Prentice Hall Literature - Copper
1994
Prentice Hall Literature - Bronze
1990
American Biographical Institute
EDUCATION
The Art Students League of New York
Studied Illustration with Earl Mayan and Steven Gross
