Nuevo Santander
Gallery
Fine Art - Antiques - Old
West Collectibles
717 North Main Street
¤ McAllen
TX 78501
(956) 618-4959 ¤ fax (956) 618-1746
nsantander@aol.com
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CARLOS EVERHARD Born in Mexico, Carlos Everhard began drawing at a very young age. His parents began to support his artistic development in high school were he received his first full scholarship at the Marie Walsh Sharp Foundation in Colorado Springs in 1997. From there, his artistic development began to dramatically grow as he applied to college programs at universities such as the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, the Massachusetts College of Art, and the Art Institute of Boston where he received his Bachelors of Fine Art. During his studies in the New England area, Carlos received the Tisdale Scholarship and the Fine Arts Portfolio Award from the Art Institute of Boston. He also studied abroad in the Lorenzo de Medici Institute in Florence Italy for two semesters. He was accepted to participate in two residency workshops in La Cipressaia in Montagnana Italy. In 2006, he received his Masters of Fine Art from the Art Institute of San Francisco. His work was selected for the front cover of the Vernisage Graduate M.F.A. Exhibition at the Fort Mason Center. Most of Carlos' painting influences range from the Neo-Classical French paintings of the 18th century, to works by contemporary artists such as Mark Tansey, Lucien Freud, and Sidney Goodman. Through visual metaphors, he represents the nature of human longing; the conception of longing for what we have had and experienced. His paintings are about the ongoing emptiness that propels us through time. He uses the human figure as well as animals to serve as a vehicle of expression, and due to the viewer's natural empathetic response to another's body, renders the expression more vital and clear. The process Carlos uses involves working from life, memory, and photographs to create a drawn composition that is then transferred to panel or canvas. In his oil paintings, he works his images with a full range of technical mediums such as opacity, transparency, and opalescent scumbles to create his convincing effects. In his charcoal drawings, he slowly builds up the surface to create a soft glowing halo effect by using a variety of cloths and soft leathers.
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