Born in Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Lives and works in Ojai, California

EDUCATION:
Carlos Grasso studied Music, Graphic Arts and Painting in Buenos Aires (Argentina), Paris (France) and Los Angeles (United States). His multi-faceted creative career started as a professional musician in Paris in the late 70s and 80s, then evolved into graphic design, always in Paris and then in the United States.

His painting apprenticeship started with still-life and portraiture in the classical training style under the guidance of Master Painter David A. Leffel.

Later on, his artwork evolved towards pure abstraction, sometimes incorporating figurative elements within the abstraction, creating in these cases an interesting and new visual field of experience with the interpolation of these two worlds.

GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
Carlos' work has been shown and represented by galleries in Carmel (Portnoy Galleries, Gallery Americana, Phillips Gallery of Fine Art), San Francisco (Beach Street Gallery), Napa Valley - Yountville (Generations Fine Art).

Carlos is a member of the Ojai Studio Artists (OSA). Since 1994, this established group of artists holds a respected and well-attended Studio Tour every year in early October, and several group shows in Ojai at the Ojai Museum and the Ojai Art Center for the Arts.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS:
Carlos Grasso’s work is part of private collections in California: Los Angeles, Berkeley, Bakersfield, Ojai, Ventura and Santa Barbara.  His works are also represented in Taos (New Mexico), Dallas (Texas) and in international collections: Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Nice (France).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
2010 Ventura County Star – (Profile in "Artistic Touch)
2010 Ojai Quarterly (Cover and Cover story article)
2006 June Issue of American Artist (Cover and Cover story article)