Carl Wright
Martinsburg, WV, United States
Carl Wright is an award-winning sculptor and gallery owner. Carl studied art at the Maryland Instit...
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Carl Wright
Joined In 2010
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About the artist
Carl Wright
Joined In 2010
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Carl Wright is an award-winning sculptor and gallery owner.
Carl studied art at the Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore, & Frostburg State University. He received a Regents Bachelor of Arts Degree from Shepherd University with focus on Fine Arts in 1996. In 1988 he co-founded the WSG Gallery , a gallery focused on sculpture, painting & fine art.
He is represented by three galleries & select art consultants. Some sculpture highlights are: a sculpture in a biotech headquarters in Durham, NC, a sculpture in a Fortune 500 Executives' home in Zug Switzerland, exterior sculpture in the prestigious Northshore Sculpture Park, an exterior sculpture at the Courthouse Galleries in Portsmouth, VA from Feb. 2011 to Nov. 2011, permanent installation in Charlotte, NC & Mount Dora, FL & a temporary installation in Rockville, MD from May 2013 - Oct. 2013.
He has participated in seven Public Art Exhibitions, participated in 11 gallery shows & six juried museum shows.
Carl shows his love of shape, color, texture, & storytelling by carving abstract stone sculptures that can be divided into five different themes. These themes are: the Music Series, the Striving Series, the Motion Series, the Tranquil Series, & the Exuberant Series.
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Education Highlights:Studied at the George Washington University in Washington, DC & Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore. Bachelor of Arts Degree, Shepherd University in Fine Arts.
Sculpture "Stillness" was inducted into the WV Museum Permanent Collection in Charleston, WV 2013.
Washington DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities October 2013 bought two sculptures - Taihei1 & Taihei2
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