| Rani Carson
rcarson@princestreetgallery.com
Rani Carson Gallery
Belles Cafe - Gabreski Airport
Westhamption
New York-born, Rani Carson studied with roof-top painter, Herman Rose, and started painting in the Caribbean. After graduating from Barnard college as an English Major, she lived in Paris, studied paintings throughout Europe, returned to earn her M.F.A. from Brooklyn College. She began teaching at the Grant Campus of Suffolk County Community college where she is now a Professor of Art and curator for the campus art gallery. She has also taught at the Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts in Kingston, Jamaica.
Rani Carson had one-person exhibitions in the U.S. and Jamaica, including the Vorpal Gallery in San Francisco and the Prince Street Gallery. She has shown at Vassar College, and the Allan Stone Gallery. She has also been in group shows: "Figurative Artists of Park Slope" at the Brooklyn Museum, the Small Works show at N.Y.U., Movietone Muse at One Penn Plaza, and "Art Against Apartheid" exhibitions throughout New York city. Ms. Carson has also been included in several annual exhibitions at the National Gallery. Her work has been reviewed in several publications in the U.S. and Jamaica, including the Winter/Watercolor edition of American Artist (2003).
Now a resident of Riverhead, N.Y., she travels several times a year to her studio in Oracabessa, Jamaica West Indies. |
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