NEW YORK, NY, September 30, 2025 /24-7PressRelease/ -- David Carbone has been selected for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.

Mr. Carbone's distinguished career in the arts spans more than four decades, marked by significant contributions as a painter, critic, curator, teacher, and leader within the art community. He emerged as a painter at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art during their exhibition Boston Now: Figuration, in 1982, where he was presented as a post-modern painter employing aspects of different pictorial languages to signal layered meanings underlying the work's narrative subject matter. He showed extensively throughout the New England area, in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and in the south in various galleries and museums. Subject matter has varied from vaudeville acts and circus sideshows to scenes from Dante's Inferno, biographical tributes or elegies to lost friends often set in metaphoric landscape settings, images of war and the plight of refugees focused on the Syrian civil war and other conflicts, the origin of Gay, Off-Off Broadway theater, and most recently, street life in New York City. He views his artwork as a form of theater and in all these works, an empathetic but critical eye is turned on our culture and ourselves, examining dilemmas, and delusions in an existential penumbra: lyric, tragic and ironic. Eschewing pictorial formats that stay politely on the wall, Carbone's work is meant to challenge the viewer to examine their own values and assumptions. Recent publications covering him include Red Hot Magazine, in both a review and an interview related to the exhibition, Tales of Adjusted Desire at the Robert Berry Gallery and a discussion of a narrative painting and a chapter in which he appears as a fellow traveler in Lincoln Perry's recent book Seeing Like An Artist. Carbone's website is davidcarbone.net.

Mr. Carbone is widely recognized for his work as an art critic and writer since the late 1970s. He has contributed essays and criticism to numerous art magazines and online platforms, offering insights that encourage readers to engage with artwork from an artist's perspective rather than solely through historical or contemporary trends. From approximately 1990 to 2005, he appeared on National Public Radio's Morning Edition with David D'Arcy, further amplifying his voice within the broader art community. Additionally, Mr. Carbone has curated and written catalogue essays for a number of contemporary painters for retrospective exhibitions and gallery shows, especially artists who represented the post abstract figuration that followed out of the New York School abstraction and flourished from the late sixties through the present. Mr. Carbone has long sought to champion underappreciated achievements, abstract and figurative, championing them against the biases of contemporary fashion.

In addition to these roles, Professor Carbone has held the position of head of the graduate program in Studio Art at the University at Albany since 2003 until his retirement in 2015. In this position, he mentored student's development in the graduate seminar, preparation for their graduate exhibition and oral examinations. His teaching career extends further back to appointments as a visiting professor at Stanford University, Pratt Institute, Parsons School of Design, Knox College and an 18-year run at his alma matter, the School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. There he began teaching drawing in the evening program and was given opportunities to lecture on contemporary art, while still an undergraduate. When he returned to the SMFA, as a full-time teacher, after a graduate stint at Brooklyn College, he was also appointed to the Graduate Seminar for MFA students at Tufts University. Collaborating with his colleague Susan Denker, Head of Art History, they created a series of affordable yearly trips to Europe so that undergraduate students would have firsthand encounters with the great art of the past and studio visits with European contemporaries. Over 46 years in higher education, he has influenced generations of students. His contribution as a respondent to a symposium on The Role of Classical Drawing in 21st Century Pedagogy (part 4 of 5) can be viewed on You Tube.

Since 2007, he has served as the executive director of the Joan Silverman and Alfred Russell Estate, where he has been instrumental in cataloguing the artworks and producing an extensive website: alfredrussell.com. He selects works from the estate to be conserved and has enhanced Alfred Russell's legacy in exhibitions in galleries and museums in the United States and Europe. His responsibilities involve contacting museum curators and gallerists, working closely with collectors, such as the Marty O'Brien Foundation, dispersing works to public collections and developing strategies for the distribution of art, ensuring their continued preservation and visibility. Although he had known Russell as a mentor in graduate school, it was not until his collaboration with the painter/dealer Bruno Civitico on a selective retrospective of Russell's paintings, during the Charleston, S.C., Spoleto Festival in 1991, that he became both a friend and an aide.

In 2022, Mr. Carbone was invited by Ms. Patricia Bailey, the president of the John Heliker/Robert LaHoten Foundation to join its board. In this capacity, he advises her in managing the Heliker estate and its collections, collaborates with her on foundation matters and helps guide strategies for stewardship and public engagement with the foundation's holdings.

Educationally, Mr. Carbone's background includes a Master of Fine Arts from Brooklyn College, City University of New York in 1974 and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in 1971. Keeping abreast of industry developments, he is a member of several professional organizations, including the International Association of Art Critics and the United University Professions.

Beyond his professional achievements, Mr. Carbone is civically engaged through various organizations. His associations include the Bowery Association of Neighbors, active in civic responsibility and historic preservation; and Inside Change, an organization that aids the homeless. He is a board member on a commercial building in Chelsea and on his residence in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Mr. Carbone's accomplishments have been recognized with numerous honors, including the Ingram Merrill Award — associated with the poets James Merrill, J. D. McClatchy and John Hollander — and an Engelhardt Foundation Award. Overall, he attributes his success to persistence in his studio practice and a dedication to evolving his vision, recognizing that each individual's unique story enriches collective understanding.

In his personal life, Mr. Carbone enjoys cooking and traveling, exploring different cultures and cuisines alongside his spouse, Donna Langman, a costumer for Broadway, Opera and Television. In the upcoming years, he is focused on securing new representation for himself while pursuing opportunities to showcase a substantial body of work developed over two decades. Future contributions may include an essay for the centennial publication honoring Stanley William Hayter, the English painter and printmaker who changed the nature of printmaking in the 20th century and an essay for a book on the drawings by the American painter, Hyman Bloom. He also hopes to publish retrospective catalogues on Alfred Russell, and Bruno Civitico, alongside traveling exhibitions.

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