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Carl Gombert was born in Brimfield, Ohio in 1959.  He started taking painting lessons at the age of 14 with money he earned delivering newspapers.  He earned a BFA in Drawing from the University of Akron and an MFA in Painting from Kent State University.  He worked as a stagehand before pursuing a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts at Texas Tech University.  He has exhibited widely and his work is in numerous public and corporate collections. Since 1993 has taught painting, drawing and art history at Maryville College in Tennessee.

Contact: carl.gombert@maryvillecollege.edu

 

RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020
International Art Center, Troy University, Troy, AL

2019
Hodges Library, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

2018
University of South Carolina Upstate, Spartanburg, SC
Dogwood Arts Gallery, Knoxville, TN

2017
Pellissippi State Community College, Knoxville, TN

2015
William King Museum, Abingdon, VA
City Gallery of North Charleston, North Charleston, SC

RECENT CURATED EXHIBITIONS

2020
“Making an Impression,” Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA

2017
”Exchange Exhibition,” William King Museum, Abingdon, VA

2016
“Mandalas” CACE Gallery, Fort Morgan, CO

2015
“New Watermedia,” Shenandoah Valley Art Center, Waynesboro, VA
“Knoxville Now,” Tipton Gallery, Johnson City, TN
“Group Show,” Susquehanna Center for the Creative Arts, Columbia, PA

RECENT AWARDS

2020
Hugh Bailey Memorial Award, Oak Ridge Art Center

2019
Best in Show, Arts and Culture Alliance

2017
Sisyphus Award, Oak Ridge Art Center

2016
Museum Purchase Award, LaGrange Museum of Art
Honorable Mention, Oak Ridge Art Center

2015
Honorable Mention, Oak Ridge Art Center

PUBLIC ART/MURALS

2018
East Tennessee Children’s Hospital, Knoxville, TN

2016
Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church, Oak Ridge, TN

2014
Coulter Grove Intermediate School, Maryville, TN
Arteles Foundation, Haukijarvi, Finland

2013
Maryville College, Maryville, TN

2004
Knoxville Convention Center, Knoxville, TN

SELECTED RECENT JURIED EXHIBITIONS

2021
“National Juried Show,” Arts and Culture Alliance, Knoxville, TN

2020
“Red Clay Survey,” Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
“National Juried Show,” Arts and Culture Alliance, Knoxville, TN
“Open Show,” Oak Ridge Art Center, Oak Ridge, TN
“Art in the Airport XVI,” McGhee-Tyson Airport, Knoxville, TN

2019
“Art in the Airport XIV,” McGhee-Tyson Airport, Knoxville, TN
“Smaller Than a Breadbox,” Arts and Culture Alliance, Knoxville, TN
“The Big Tiny Show,” District Gallery, Knoxville, TN

2018
“Imprint,” Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
“Artfields,” Lake City, SC
“29th National Drawing Exhibition,” Gormley Gallery, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Baltimore MD
“Art in the Airport XIII,” McGhee-Tyson Airport, Knoxville, TN

2017
“Otherworldiness,” Ground Floor Gallery, Nashville, TN
“Art in the Airport XI,” McGhee-Tyson Airport, Knoxville, TN
“Open Show,” Oak Ridge Art Center, Oak Ridge, TN

2016
“First LaGrange Regional Exhibition,” LaGrange Art Museum, LaGrange, GA
“Open Show,” Oak Ridge Art Center, Oak Ridge, TN

2015
“International Drawing Annual 10,” Manifest Creative Drawing Center (Print), Cincinnati, OH
“Drawing Discourse,” University North Carolina Asheville, Asheville, NC
“Open Show,” Oak Ridge Art Center, Oak Ridge, TN
“From These Hills,” William King Museum, Abingdon, VA
“Art in the Airport IX,” McGhee-Tyson Airport, Knoxville, TN

PUBLIC/CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Maryville College

Mobile Museum of Art

Oak Ridge Art Center

Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist Church

Pastel Society of America

Pastel Society of the West Coast

Rocky Mount Art Center

Smith College Museum of Art

Tennessee State Museum

Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church

Weston, Inc.

William King Museum of Art

Arteles Creative Center, Haukijarvi, Finland

Avampato Discovery Museum

Austin Peay State University

Blount County Public Library

Cleveland Indians, Inc.

Coulter Grove Intermediate School

East Tennessee Children’s Hospital

Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science

Huntsville Museum of Art

Kansas Pastel Society

Knoxville Convention Center

Knoxville Museum of Art


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