Adam J Carriuolo

Fine Art Silkscreen Prints

Bio

Adam J Carriuolo was born and raised in Brockton, Massachusetts. As a teenager he discovered the world of European comic art through a fantasy magazine called Heavy Metal. He began creating art in earnest and was accepted to the Visual Design program at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth (UMD). He concentrated in illustration and visual design.

After graduation Adam moved to Boston to pursue a career as a freelance illustrator. After several years of struggling in the competitive field of freelance illustration, he took a job as a graphic artist at Lotus Development Corp. in Cambridge. At Lotus he had the opportunity to learn computer graphics applications at a very exciting time for the medium. He quickly evolved from a mechanical artist to a multimedia author and graphic designer.

Around 1994 he was exposed to the ground-breaking computer game "Myst". Adam realized that corporate technology graphics were not where his future as an artist should be. Realizing that he now had marketable art technology skills, Adam turned his back on a comfortable future at a big company (by this time Lotus had become a subsidiary of IBM), and vigorously pursued a job as an artist in the computer game industry. After searching accross the country for two years, he landed a job as an artist at Sierra-Online subsidiary Impressions Games - two blocks from Lotus in Cambridge.

After seven years at Impressions Games, and a five year stint as the lead UI artist at Tilted Mill Entertainment in Framingham, MA, he has since been employed as a Senior Artist at Rock Band developer Harmonix Music in Cambridge, MA.

Around 2003 Adam realized he was missing the tactile joy of making art. The feel of paper, the smell of paint, and the sound and feel of a brush pressing against canvas was missing from the highly technical methods involved in digital art. Having developed an interest in historical architecture, he began considering ways to present these great buildings in a fresh way that people would respond to.

The very beginning fruits of this convergence are presented here. There is great deal more to come.