Art Installations and Digital Media
1980s Grant attended and taught at Pratt School of Art and Design, New York City to enhance his knowledge of computer graphics and digital editing. He worked as a computer graphic artist, animator and editor using AT&T- NASA software, creating formats for the premiere of CD-Rom and DVD and Internet technology, for NYC companies as: Fusion, Advanced Graphics, Exhibit Technologies, Carabineer, and Ogilvy & Mather Advertising.
Painting on the computer tablet, Carson created animations for the 1991 Sony's Time Square Video Screen, present day Panasonic panel hung on the One Times Square building, for the Ayer Advertising campaign 'Breakthrough with the Unexpected" animation of an egg cracking to release a butterfly and also projects for IBM, Intel, Kodak, DeBeers, Shell, American Express, and National Geographic's Global Access Interactive Gallery in Washington, DC.
1990s For the SIGGRAPH - 1990 Convention, Texas, to honor John F. Kennedy's memory, Carson constructed the suspended 3D hologram sculpture (100' x 100') titled Harmony Mountain inside the second floor of the old Dallas Union Train Station, where a viewer could walk around and under the mountainous shape. In the artist's words, "The installation's purpose was to harness viewers' peaceful thoughts and funnel them through the five pointed Texas Star Vortex (20' diameter) which was hung between the two massive exterior columns on the balcony over looking the historically tarnished Dallas Dealy Plaza and book depository. Carson was honored with the SIGGRAPH Vision in Art Award.
2000s Participates as a visual artist in many group art exhibitions in NYC as a curator, a contributing painter and photographer. As a film actor, has portrayed more than 400 film characters in commercial and independent films as of 2012.
In 2010, Carson Ferri-Grant paints a 32 ft x 14 ft mural of a Buzzard Bay estuary, on the 3rd floor exterior of the old Ocean Spray Cranberry Factory in E. Wareham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, which helped draw the artistic community to this location, as the Buzzard Bay Theater Company and 3065 Music Club.
In 2011, Carson Ferri-Grant curates an exhibition "Fall: Rising Above 9-11" for the West Side Arts Coalition, NYC. He asked the contributing artists to create original art work of their feelings about 9-11 for the tenth anniversary. ,
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