BIO:

(b. 1977) Carlino is a multi-displinary artist working in painting, drawing, installation, murals, public art and site specific activations. Carlino exhibits internationally, including shows at the University Museum of Contemporary Art in Amherst, the 2019 Every Woman Biennial, Site Brooklyn Gallery, Garvey Simon Gallery, Alfa Gallery in Miami, the Grand Rapids ArtPrize, Pierogi Flat Files, and the Honorary America Artist for Ras Al Khaimah Art in the UAE. Carlino was a member on the team of artists that installed the 25 year Drawing Retrospective of Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts in 2008. Her team installed Wall Drawing #38, Wall Drawing #142, and Wall Drawing #797. Carlino’s awards include Art on the Streets 2022 Grand Prize Award, the Prutting Award for Painting, Bromfield Solo Competition, Dehn Visiting Artist Fellowship, and a 2016 Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Drawing and Printmaking. Carlino has been painting murals since 2014 and has completed numerous mural commissions as well as public art projects for the City of Springfield, City of Colorado Springs, City of Northampton, Lower Eastside Business Improvement District, NYC Department of Transportation, Isenberg Projects in Boston, Turning Art, Grand Rapids ArtPrize, Marshalltown Iowa, Orange Virginia, the NYC Garment District Alliance and recently a commission for Google Headquarters in Cambridge, MA.

STATEMENT:

My work is based in geometric abstraction and rooted in the historical language of 20th century abstraction exploring issues of color, form, flatness and pattern while juxtaposing abstracted forms from nature and the environment around us to create works that find harmony in the tension of contrasting elements. My work is adaptable and improvisational as it explores optical playfulness and spatial dimensionality through color, fluid organic forms and geometric patterning. I enjoy the dynamic dialogue of shifting scales and mark making that occurs as I move between my studio practice and the public art realm. In my work I am interested in how abstraction can be a vehicle for metaphors relating to life such as movement, time, and natural processes.

CV:

University of Massachusetts Amherst. Bachelor of Fine Arts. Summa cum laude.

COMMISSIONS and PROJECTS

2024

Community Mural. River Valley Co-Op. Northampton, MA.

Geo-Play Mural. Westhampton Elementary School. Westhampton, MA.

Place-Making Mural. Donahue Public School. Holyoke, MA

2023

ReSituated. Mural. Mill 180. Easthampton, MA.

Tiny Art 4 All Gallery Project. Northampton Bike Trail. Northampton, MA.

Where To Next. Asphalt Mural. Mountain View School. Easthampton, MA.

Sunburst Over State. Traffic Box. Northampton, MA.

Remembrance for the Future. Mural. Lincoln Properties. Devens, MA.

A Softening. Painting Commission for BIDMC. Boston Art. Boston, MA.

2022

Industrial Reimagining. Mural. Eastworks. Easthampton, MA.

Portals for Looking Inward. Mural. Love Your Trails. Adams County, CO.

Interweaving and Connective Distillations. Interior Mural. Google. Cambridge, MA.

Hatch Me A Dream.  Mural. Orange, Virginia.

Interspace. Ashburnham Art Center, Ashburnham, MA.

WindSong. Art on the Streets Festival. Colorado Springs, CO. Grand Prize Recipient.

Play. Public Art Initiative Northampton Public Schools. MA.

Wayfinding. Exterior Murals. AdAMan Club Project. Colorado Springs, CO.

2021

Cosmic Expansion. Mural Project. Arts and Culture Alliance. Marshalltown, IA.

BioSphere IV. Interior Mural. Longfellow. Cambridge, MA.

Genius Loci. Mural Project. Grand Rapids ArtPrize. Grand Rapids, MI.

Galactic SpacePlay. Asphalt Mural Project. Northampton, MA.

Blossom. Bike Path Beautification Asphalt Mural Project. Northampton City Planning Dept. Florence, MA.

Spectrum. Exterior Sugar Cube Barrier Public Art Project. Garment District Alliance. NYC, NY.

Fresh. Interior Mural Project. Lulu Green. Boston, MA.

2020

Black Lives Matter Community Asphalt Mural. Lead Artist. City of Springfield Grant Project. Springfield, MA.

Infinite Present I-IV. Parcel K Interior Commission Painting Project.  ORA, Boston, MA.

KAPOW. Community Asphalt Mural Project. City of Northampton Planning Project, MA.

Lush. Public Art Barrier Project. City of Northampton Planning Project, MA.

A River Hymn for Transformation. Interior Mural. Epsilon Spires. Brattleboro Vermont.

Through the Lens. Commission Painting Project. Patria. Northampton, MA.

2019

Kismet. Mural. Arsenal Yards. Isenberg Projects. Watertown, MA.

Infatuation. Interior Mural. Lulu Green.  South Boston, MA.

Urban Playscape. Asphalt Mural. NYC Department of Transportation Art Program. South Bronx, NYC.

Eco-Industrial Abstraction. Interior Mural. Eastworks. Easthampton, MA.

Abstract Deco-Decadence. Painting Commission. Heavenly Chocolates. Northampton. MA.

Celestial Charting of a Wandering Line. Mural. Epsilon Spires. Brattleboro, VT.

Urban BioSphere Fragmented. Mural. Colorado Springs, CO.

Oasis Northampton Asphalt Mural Project. Northampton Public Arts Council. Northampton, MA.

Geo-Utopia I. Fresh Paint Mural Festival. Springfield, MA.

EcoTone: Inhabitation. Mural. William Blizard Gallery.  Springfield, MA.

BioSphere III. Mural. Easthampton, MA

2018

BioSphere II. Mural. Easthampton, MA

Oasis Asphalt Mural Project. NYC Department of Transportation Art Program. NYC.

Nature Exposed. Electrify Amherst Public Art Project. Amherst, MA.

Playscape I. Bench Beautification Public Art Project. Lower Eastside Business Improvement District. NY, NY.

Panoramic Visions of a Fragmented Landscape, Blue I & II. Commission Painting Project. 121 Club. Easthampton, MA.

2017

Milton Bradley Deconstructed.  Public Art Mural.  City of Springfield, MA.

2015

Portal II. 100 Gates Project.  Mural. Lower Eastside. NY, NY.  

The Science Center.  Mural. Academy Hill.  Springfield, MA.

2014   

Portal I.  Mural. Loft Parlor. Mill 180. Easthampton, MA.

SELECTED SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

60 Years of Collecting. Group Exhibition. DeCordova Corporate Art Lending Artist. Lincoln, MA.

Group Exhibition. Overlap Gallery. Newport, RI.

Visual Languages. Arno Maris Gallery. Westfield State University. Group Exhibition. Westfield, MA.

2022

Passing the Edge. Fort Point Art Center Gallery. 3-Person Exhibition. Boston, MA.

2021

APE Flat File Exhibition. APE Gallery. Northampton, MA.

Spectra. Clippership Wharf Gallery. 3-Person Exhibition. East Boston, MA.

Terrestrial Expansions. The Other Art Fair Chicago.

Five Points 2021 Juried Exhibition. Five Points Center for the Visual Arts. Torrington, CT.

In Here Together. Chashama. Solo Exhibition. NYC, NY.

2020

Post Pause. Online Group Exhibition. Curator: Maggie Nowinski.

Terrestrial Expansions. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Solo Exhibition. Boston, MA.

2019

Every Woman Biennial.  Group Exhibition. NYC. NY.

Close Encounters. William Blizard Gallery. Springfield College. Group Exhibition. Springfield, MA.

A Sense of Place.  Arno Maris Art Gallery.  Westfield University. Solo Exhibition. Massachusetts.

#intimate/infinite. Local Gallery. Group Exhibition. Easthampton, MA.

2018

Landscape Real and Imagined. Site: Brooklyn Gallery.  Brooklyn, NY.

Excursion in Color. Group Exhibition. Local Gallery. Easthampton, MA.

Juxtapose. RSM Gallery. 3 person Exhibition. Boston, MA.

Work-Around. Student Union Art Gallery. Group Exhibition. UMass Amherst.

2017

Transform: A Group Exhibition. Alfa Gallery. Miami, FL.

Visions of a Fragmented Landscape, part II.  Von Auersperg Gallery.  Solo Exhibition.  Deerfield Academy.

Visions of a Fragmented Landscape, part I.  Von Hope & Feathers Gallery.  Solo Exhibition.  Amherst, MA.

The Primary Line.  Herter Gallery.  Solo Exhibition.  University of Massachusetts Amherst.2016

Massachusetts Cultural Council 2016 Artist Fellows Exhibition.  New Art Center.  Newton, MA.

2015

New Beginnings. Elisa Contemporary Gallery.  Riverdale, NY.

Line, Process and Play Solo Exhibition.  Bing Center.  Springfield, MA

Fall Affordable Art Fair.  Elisa Contemporary Gallery.  NYC, NY.   

100 Gates. LES, NYC.

GeoNatural. Amy H. Carberry Gallery.  Springfield, MA. Curator: Leslie Tane.

Boston MFA Summer Art Party, Silent Auction. Boston, MA.

Boston Drawing Project.  Carroll and Sons Gallery.  Boston, MA.

Chroma Group Exhibition.  Gallery 263.  Cambridge, MA. Juror: Lynda Schlosberg.

2014

Small Works Group Exhibition.  Hope and Feathers Gallery.  Amherst, MA.

Art of the Northeast Group Exhibition.  Silvermine Art Center.  New Caanan, CT. Juror: Andrew Russeth.

Contemporary Art & Design Fair.  The Tunnel.   NYC, NY.

Aqueous (un)Watercolor. Crowell's Fine Art Gallery.  New Bedford, MA.

Possibilities of Space. WNE University.  Springfield, MA.

Artifice of Geometry. Bromfield Gallery. Boston, MA. Juror, Al Miner.

Dialogue With a Collection. University Museum of Contemporary Art. UMass, Amherst, MA.

2013

Rethinking Histories of Line.  Historic Northampton Museum.  Northampton, MA.

Paperworks. B.J. Spoke Gallery. Huntington, NY. Juror: Mia Curran.

National Works on Paper. LBIF. Long Beach, NJ. Juror: Margot Norton.

Earth. 440 Gallery. Brooklyn, NY. Juror: Jill Conner.

No Limit. Fountain Street Art. Framingham, MA. Juror: Kathryn Markel.

National Competition. Cambridge Art Association. Cambridge, MA. Juror: Toby Kamps

2012

Light Up the Arts, Small Works.  ECA+.  Easthampton, MA.

Small Works. Freedom Trails Gallery. Amherst, MA.

Amherst Biennial.  Frost Library, Amherst College.  Amherst, MA.

Post Art Prize.  Frames Unlimited. Grand Rapids, MI.

Art Prize.  Minty Keen.  Grand Rapids, MI.

2011

Mind Motion. Spaces Gallery.  Hardwick, MA.

School's Out. Caelum Gallery. New York, NY.

Junior/Senior Award Exhibition.  Herter Gallery. Amherst, MA.

Paperworks.  Paper City Studios.  Holyoke, MA.

Environments, part II.  Student Union Gallery.  Amherst, MA.

Spineless. Hampden Gallery. Amherst, MA.

2010

An Exchange with Sol LeWitt.  MASS MoCA. North Adams, MA.

Student Work.  University of Massachusetts, Chancellor Gallery. Boston, MA.

Spring Break. Caelum Gallery.  New York, NY.

Sutra. Student Union Gallery. Amherst, MA.

Multiple Totalities. Student Union Gallery. Amherst, MA.

COLLECTIONS

Google. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Springfield College. Western New England College. Amgen. Chemetal. RSM.

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2022

Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant

2021

Blanche E. Colman Award

Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant

2019

Northampton Cultural Council Grant

2017

Springfield Cultural Council Grant

2016

Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in Drawing

DEHN Visiting Artist Award and Lecture, Manchester Community College, CT.

2015

Blanche E. Colman Award, Semi-Finalist.

2014

Prutting Award for Painting. Art of the Northeast. Silvermine Art Center.  New Caanan, CT.

Flat Files. Pierogi Gallery.  Brooklyn, NY.

2011

Art Grant.  UMass Arts Council. Amherst, MA.

Vice Chancellor's Purchase Award. University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Gordon Scholarship for Fine Arts.  University of Massachusetts Amherst.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2022

Boston Globe. The Ticket Critic’s Picks. 2.4.2022

2021

Artscope Magazine. Capsule Preview for Artscope 96. 12. 28. 2021

Times Republican. Three More murals coming to Marshalltown. 10.5.2021

EastBoston. Spectra, An Exhibition at ClipArt Gallery at Clippership Wharf. 10.3.2021

GothamToGo. In Here Together. 8.31.21

GothamToGo. Spectrum Brings Bolts of Color to The Garment District. 5.3.21

2020

Mass Live. Northampton shuts down traffic on Main Street. 8.20.2020

3030 Magazine. Take this Virtual Street Art Tour of Colorado without Leaving Home. 3.19.2020

2019

Boston Globe. Here’s what’s open and what’s still to come at Arsenal yards. 12.20.2019

Brattleboro Reformer. Adding art and color to downtown Brattleboro. 8.7.2019

Gazette. Art Explodes downtown for summer in Art on the Streets Exhibit. 6.12.2019

Business West. Mural Festival Presents Positive Image of Springfield. 6.25.2019

2018

MAG. Transform at Alfa Gallery. 3.5.2018.

2017

Mass Live. Labor of Love: Milton Bradley Decontructed. 10.11.17

The Reminder. New mural on A.W. Gifford Building adds color to downtown. 10.20.17

2016

Jung Katz. Online Review.

2015

Valley Advocate. Can an Artist Survive in the Valley? 4.21.2015

Dialogist. November Issue.

Cosmopolitan Online Magazine.  100 Gates Project.

Fresh Paint Magazine.  February Issue.

2014      

Research Next. Artist Feature. May Issue. UMass Amherst.

Yareah Magazine.  Review.   May Issue.

ArtFix Daily.  Review.  5.7.14

unWatercolor.  South Coast Today.  5.1.14

Go With the Flow. Preview Magazine Feature.  April Issue.

Bromfield Gallery.  Boston Globe. Cate McQuaid. 1.7.14

2013     

Art People.  Artist Feature. Hampshire Gazette.  3.21.13

Loft Parlor, New Easthampton Gallery.  Hampshire Gazette. 6.5.13

Pioneer Magazine.  Northampton, MA.