Carter's work reflects a fascination and unease with the human body as a metaphor for an anxiety of persona, the body being an outward projection and defining image of self. Untitled is set quite literally on a blank canvas. Here Carter presents a profile in the making: his half-finished portraits are accompanied by sketchy forms at the bottom of the drawing, inviting viewer participation in completing the image. Through piecemeal assemblage, Carter attributes his figures with personality traits as well as physical features: through the subtle quality of line, tone, and placement his characters resolve as fluctuating and contradictory personalities.
Though Carter's drawings are directed by an intuitive aesthetic, they evolve from an incredibly time consuming and considered process. Carter begins each work by making his own marbleised paper. Referencing the emotive brushwork of Abstract Expressionist painting, Carter's swirling patters are created through a 'hands off' procedure of dipping individual sheets into a water and oil solution – a process similar to developing photographs. Using these designs as a template over which multiple drawings are arranged and pasted, Carter merges repetitive forms with his 'instantaneous' colour-fields, creating a conceptual symbiosis between the intimacy of abstraction and the mechanisation of pop.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005
Hotel Gallery, Liste '05 Art Fair, Basel, Germany
Bebe le Strange, D'Amelio Terras, New York
Sticks and Stones, Perry Rubenstein, New York
Self Formation, Art2102, Los Angeles
White Columns, The Armory Show, New York
Trade, White Columns, New York
2004
Bulletin Board, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco
Rebus, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
2002
Art Point, Midway Contemporary Art, Miami
The Stray Show, Midway Contemporary Art, Chicago
Multiplicity, Midway Contemporary Art, St.Paul
Being There, Derek Eller Gallery, New York
2001
Artist of the Month, April 2001, Artists Space Gallery, New York
2000
Faculty 2000, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore
The Future of the Body, Richmond Art Center, Oakland
1998
All of Me, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
SAP: The Residue of the San Francisco Art Scene, Lanai Motel/Four Walls Gallery, SF, CA
Covert Pleasures, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
Spoon Full of Sugar, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
1997
Introductions, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
New Work, Four Walls Gallery, San Francisco
Deep Forest, Four Walls, San Francisco
1995
Big Bundle of Joy, Pence Gallery, Davis
1994
Skowhegan Annual Exhibition
1992
Word and Image, Bauhouse Gallery, Baltimore
1990
Miniature Art, Art Gallery of Fell's Point, Baltimore
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Carter's work references a time when these "options" weren't options, but rather necessities in the construction of the closet, as in Rock Hudson's 1966 film, "Seconds." There, plastic surgery transforms Hudson's character from straight-laced, Manhattanite businessman into an artist living in Malibu, CA.
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