XL11 (Shui Gu) Painting

Marshall Carbee is a multidisciplinary artist whose work fuses surrealism, ecological reverence, and post-industrial mythology. With a career spanning over five decades, Carbee’s practice has traversed drawing, painting, sculpture, animation, and experimental media. His recent works incorporate bio-sustainable materials—rainwater, ocean water, crushed gemstones, and botanical extracts—positioning him at the forefront of an emerging eco-surrealist movement. Carbee’s paintings often balance architectural precision with dream logic. His compositions suggest portals, diagrams, or transmissions—half-remembered blueprints from a parallel civilization. Whether through crystalline coastal landscapes or ink drawings that function like unconscious maps, his work remains grounded in an intuitive yet highly structured visual language. Raised in New England and trained in both New York and Paris, Carbee apprenticed with master potter Gerry Williams as a teenager and later designed Michael Jackson’s first music video. He has lived and worked in New York, California, Jamaica, and France, and his personal history threads through Cold War anxieties, digital experimentation, and a lifelong conversation with nature. Carbee’s paintings invite quiet attention. They do not shout—they signal. To collectors, they offer not only color and form but also a kind of artifact: evidence of an artistic life lived deeply, experimentally, and off the grid.