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New America (usa) Artist Carter's Exhibitions at the Saatchi Gallery

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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How do you think America (USA) would be today if our ancestors didn't come over here?

Do you think Native Americans would have invented all the things we did and progressed the nation the we did or would it still be a forrest? ALSO, how advanced would the rest of the world be right now if USA was never colonized? I personally think it would be stuck back in the 1600s...

What say you?

considering europeans invaded and destroyed civilizations that in many cases were more advanced than they were at the time, except in war, what do YOU think the world would be like? i think there would be less wars throughout history, except of course in europe where there has always been war.

this attitude that all things american/white are superior and that all technology comes from them is pretty arrogant.