1. Albert Nickerson Carbee was a reclusive artist from Saco, Maine whose mixed media artwork merges collage, photography, diorama, and portraiture.
11 Facts About Al Carbee
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Al Carbee has been frequently identified as an outsider artist.
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Al Carbee's work is most commonly noted for enthusiastically featuring photographs and collages of Barbie dolls.
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Al Carbee is the subject of the documentary film Magical Universe by filmmaker Jeremy Workman.
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Al Carbee was born in Portland, Maine on February 10,1914.
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Al Carbee opened up his own hobby shop, sold guppies through mail order and built an entire outdoor go-kart racetrack which he ran throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.
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Al Carbee's wife found his fascination with Barbies embarrassing and tried to tell him he should keep it hidden.
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The short film was passed around Saco, and eventually led Al Carbee to be invited to exhibit his artwork in a one-person retrospective at the local Saco Museum.
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Al Carbee has been the subject of two documentary films by filmmaker Jeremy Workman: a five-minute short film entitled Carbee's Barbies and the feature-length documentary Magical Universe, which was released by IFC Films in October 2014.
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The first time Jeremy Workman met Al Carbee, he filmed his home and artwork, which led to the creation of the short film Al Carbee's Barbies.
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Al Carbee's Barbies was shown in some small regional film festivals.