
Spotlight Artist
AC Carter
South
Artist Statement
I recombine and recontextualize consumer products, fabricated
garments, and kitsch-based craft materials through stacking,
dressing, styling, and painting. I draw influences from pop culture,
splicing together anything from green/sustainable aesthetics to
art-historical references, with a contradictory attitude of irony and
sincerity. I make modular arrangements that can be presented in
many different ways, either on the body, through performance, in
a photograph, or in physical space. I deal with concepts of gender,
subversion, and transformation. Combinations are personified as
androgynous, anxious, and complicated characters who long to
speak out on center stage rather than be lost in the choral voice,
and yet are discordantly advocating for inclusivity and democracy.
By balancing, draping, and breaking my own systems, I constantly
question ideas of sexuality, vulnerability, and uncertainty. My
work is a process and an extension of my ethics, one that is open
to learning, conversation, and the unknown.
Artist's Additional works
Works shared by the artist outside of their featured New American Paintings selections


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