ARTIST BIO Drew Carman is a multi-disciplinary artist and award-winning landscape architect living in Austin, Texas. While pursuing an MLA in Athens, Georgia in the early 2000s, he was introduced to oil painting through the friend and mentorship of renowned painter, musician, and folklorist Art Rosenbaum. Like Art, he developed a multifaceted approach to creative work often overlapping storytelling, music, oil painting, and in Drew’s case, the design of public parks and open spaces. This diversity of mediums, what he refers to collectively as his "design cohort" ensures his artistic ideas have a variety of outlets to be developed, refined, destroyed, and finally realized.⁠

ARTIST STATEMENT My artistic practice is a loose network of creative pursuits, all compelled by and in the service of storytelling. I’m an oil painter, a designer, a landscape architect, fabricator, and musician.  Just like any healthy ecosystem, diversity is what makes it whole and resilient. Where one tool may not be able to capture my artistic intent, another can pick up. Where a song can’t find the right words to sing, a painting may.  But no matter the medium, storytelling permeates throughout my art and is the aesthetic by which I hope to connect with my audience.  Often allegorical in nature, my artwork considers stories of human connection, of our environment, of the past and present, of the good and even of the lowdown. I tell stories that have been told before and attempt to uncover those that have been hidden.