.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
home
.
..
Richard A. Carlson is a contemporary, award-winning abstract painter who studied with internationally known artist Michael Kessler at the Baum Art School in Allentown, PA. There he learned the unique process of layering skim coats of transparent acrylic across a relief of gesso textures. The result is a luminous surface, rich with illusion of depth that "fools the eye." Viewers sometimes mistake the process for a photographic technique - a cibrachrome or Polaroid transfer - but it is basically a building up of multiple paint layers.
Carlson has shown widely in the eastern mid-western and southern partsof the United States and is represented in national and internationalprivate and corporate collections.
He resides with his wife Marjory in their large studio/home near Allentown, PA.