Artist: Clifton Parker | Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
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Artist: Clifton Parker | Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
Myrtle Beach, SC
Clifton Parker is an artist versed and established in many media. He has worked as a musician, appeared on stage and screen, and worked in commercial and fine arts as a photographer, designer, and creative director. Currently he is the owner and creative director of Ellev Advertising Agency-www.ellev.com-which is a full service, award-winning ad agency based in the Carolinas with offices in Myrtle Beach and Charleston, SC.
Clifton has lived and worked in markets as creatively diverse as NYC, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Paris. His studies of the arts have taken place at the University of South Carolina, Coastal Carolina University, Tokyo Denki University in Japan, and Focus Fashion Photography School in Paris. His photography has appeared in numerous galleries and publications, as well as countless commissions by commercial clients throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia, and in 2009 Clifton won the International Aperture Gold Award and a Bronze and Silver Addy Award in 2010 for his photography work. His work with Ellev Advertising Agency garnered them a Silver Addy in 2015 for website design for their client, Grand Strand Surfrider.
Clifton currently resides part-time in Myrtle Beach, SC where he spends most his time doing music, photography, and advertising work for Ellev.
What spare time Clifton has is spent entertaining his cat Nahja as well as restoring and riding his 1968 Norton Fastback cafe' racer and 1974 Moto Guzzi Eldorado police motorcycle.