Carter Shappy

Carter Shappy is a printmaker, multimedia artist and Vermont native currently living and working in Portland, Maine where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Maine College of Art. His works are part of private and corporate collections in Maine, Vermont and Florida and have been exhibited throughout Portland. Recent projects include a collaborative art and science residency at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences. The residency concluded with the installation of a two-story printed installation titled Colorcosm. Shappy is also the print shop manager at Running with Scissors Art Studios and has worked on a variety of creative projects as an art preparator, project manager and freelance illustrator and designer. Shappy's work is inspired by his interests in natural phenomena, perception and psychedelia. By embellishing and transforming mundane elements of our lives, he encourages a reevaluation of peripheral or commonplace things and experiences. Working in a variety of mediums, he is frequently drawn to intersections in printmaking, painting and installation. (cartershappy.com)