Remembering BIG

Experience the inexhaustible creativity, expressive color and power of art created by this larger-than-life artist, affectionately known as \”Big”. Allen D. Carter, a.k.a. Big Al or Big (1947 – 2008) was distinguished as celebrated artist, teacher and mentor to at-risk youth in the Arlington County Public Schools. This exhibition proudly honors the life and work of Big Al with a journey through decades of his prodigious art production including drawings and paintings on paper, canvas, household objects, prints, sculpture and constructions on loan from the Artist’s Estate. Audiences may recall Big Al’s energetic, large scale paintings in CAM’s 2006 exhibition Five American Artists.