Marshall Carbee

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...

• BFA, University of New Hampshire (Drawing concentration)
• Pratt Institute, New York
• University Without Walls, Paris, France — Independent study with Daniel Milhaud

Marshall Carbee has exhibited his paintings, mechanical sculpture, and works on paper in one-man shows in cities around the world, including New York, Los Angeles, Paris, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Caracas, and Tokyo. His artworks hang in galleries and private collections throughout Europe and the Americas.

In May 2004, over 150 of Carbee’s works were featured in a landmark solo exhibition at Tufts University. He was twice nominated to Esquire magazine’s prestigious annual register of Americans Under Forty, honoring young innovators in the arts and sciences.

Born in Manchester, New Hampshire, Carbee apprenticed with master potter Gerry Williams and later studied in New York and Paris. He earned his BFA from the University of New Hampshire through a curricular innovation that allowed him to graduate with a degree specifically in drawing—then an unrecognized major.

He currently lives and works between Jamaica and Paris.