BIO

STATEMENT///My art is about fragmented beauty. I can draw but choose to allow you to create the story you see when looking at the lines and colors I intuitively create. Life is Art and Art is Life and one cannot exist without the other

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BIO///Carlleena Person was born with paint in her blood.  Born in New Jersey and spending her teenage years in North Carolina her views of the world were influenced both by the north and the south.   As a kid, she would spend hours drawing comics or cartoons on whatever she could find.  While in school, her notes were more like small insights into the artist she would later become.  She is an alumni of North Carolina State University in which she obtained her BA in Liberal Arts.  She considers herself “self-taught” and finds inspirations in life and nature.  Her influences are artist, poets, musicians such as Pollock, Kerouac, Coltrane, Jacob Lawrence, Langston Hughes, Hendrix and many others.  Her greatest teachers are kids.  When asked why, she states, “because kids are not afraid to try, they are not afraid to be free to create what is in their hearts.  They are not afraid to color outside of the lines.  Kids are the greatest natural artist until society forces rules and parameters on them.“  Her art speaks to both adults and kids because of its free use of line and color.  Mistakes are welcomed and appreciated because they prove that imperfections can be beautiful.  Her art is a vivid story of the world thru her eyes.  She has been commissioned by numerous private collectors and has provided work to non-profit organizations.  She continues to grow and give back by teaching kids and adults that painting is liberating if you just break down all the rules.   Person’s work is currently on display in various locations.  She is also bringing her work to large scale by doing murals throughout the city of Charlotte and always looking for public art opportunities worldwide. Charles Horton Cooley once said, “An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.”  At the end of the day, painting has consumed Carlleena as she passionately heads toward her future as a “non-starving” artist.

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