Carl Palazzolo. Photo courtesy of Casey Dunn, PaperCity.
American artist Carl Palazzolo has been exhibiting his paintings since the early seventies, and has sustained an evolving yet interconnected studio practice that often explores notions of memory and loss, longing and desire. Palazzolo’s paintings develop slowly as the artist builds and refines layers, composing subtly modulated colored fields, freehand brushstrokes, and graphic numeral characters. After the artist’s close friend, painter Stephen Mueller, died of cancer in 2011, Palazzolo’s paintings have been personal expressions of homage, appreciation, and love from one friend and painter towards another.
Carl Palazzolo studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Tufts University. His work was included in the 1975 Whitney Biennial. He has also had solo shows at Texas Gallery in Houston, Rebecca Ibel Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, Robert Bowman Ltd in London, Stephen Wirtz Gallery in San Francisco, Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts in New Orleans, and Thomas Babeor in La Jolla, California. Palazzolo has taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the University of New Orleans, Massachusetts College of Art, the School of Visual Arts and Syracuse University. He has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Council on the Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Peter Reed Foundation.
BORN
Torrington, CT
LIVES & WORKS
Houston, TX and Robinhood, ME
EDUCATION
Boston Museum School, Independent Graduate Study, MA, 1970
Boston Museum School, MA, 1969
Tufts University, Museum School Program, Medford, MA, 1968
REPRESENTATION
TexasGallery
2012 Peden Street, Houston, TX 77019
Tel: 713.524.1593