self TaughT
this Page: sharif at work in
his studio; opposite page, top:
“queria”; below: on wine bottle
labels at Weins family cellars
hether he’s talking about
w
designing a race car chassis
The way I view life is the way I see cars.
or painting his evocatively
Most people think of cars just as modes of
distilled images of
musicians, art is all about
transportation, but I see lines, shapes, curves,
motion and emotion for 34-year-old Sharif
motion. That’s the way I paint people, too.
Carter. Inspired by his brother’s successful
determination to become a performance DESIGN. DO YOU FIND A NATURAL WAS YOUR FIRST LOVE ENGINEERING OR
guitarist, Carte—who makes his living in the SYMMETRY BETWEEN FINE ART AND ART? I was sketching and drawing when I was
engineering world—began painting fine art ENGINEERING? Definitely. The way I view around four or five years old, but I really had
“for real” in 2004. With his work now being life is the way I see cars. Most people think of a more of a love for cars than anything! And
featured in local art galleries and on wine bottle cars just as modes of transportation, but I see that started with the intricate model cars I put
labels for Wiens Family Cellars, the self-taught lines, shapes, curves, motion. That’s the way together when I was a kid. I began to think that
painter happily finds himself on an artistically- I paint people, too. When I paint musicians, I would love to design my own car one day. And
unexpected detour. I try to catch the expressiveness, the emotion in my junior and senior years at the University
and the motion that comes with playing and of Washington, I finally got my chance to design
YOUR BACKGROUND IS IN MECHANICAL performing music...all with lines and shapes a race car. It looked good, but let’s just say that it
ENGINEERING AND AUTOMOBILE and colors. wasn’t a top performer! (Laughs.)
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