GORDON CARLISLE
“I grew up in the 1950’s, when Life Magazine arrived every week at the house, B-Science Fiction movies flooded the screens, and printed color looked generally a little more washed out than today. This is still the lens through which I see the world.”
Gordon Carlisle has been actively involved as a visual artist on the Seacoast since 1982, when he moved to New Hampshire from Montreal. A graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, Gordon was a member of Portsmouth's Mural Works for ten years before starting his own mural painting business in 1994. He currently makes his living as a muralist, portraitist, theater artist, painter and illustrator, with a studio in Portmouth's Button Factory. A 1999 recipient of a New Hampshire State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship for his achievement as a muralist, Gordon's artwork has been exhibited across the U.S.