Nanette Carter: Shifting Perspectives
Throughout her career, Nanette Carter has used the language of abstraction鈥攕hape, line, color, and texture鈥攖o reflect the world around her. For the past thirty years, she has addressed issues weighing on contemporary society through large Mylar collages. Carter鈥檚 ongoing series, Shifting Perspectives, alludes to recent changes she finds disturbing: an increasingly polarized Congress, threats to Democracy, the erosion of women鈥檚 rights, the rise of political extremism, and anxiety about climate change. The monumentally scaled work that will be on view in the Laurie Art Stairway reinterprets one of these earlier collages, Shifting Perspectives #6 (2024), and transforms it into a vibrant and striking mural.
For this new version, Carter digitally alters her original composition of precariously balanced shapes climbing up the wall. By rotating elements of the original composition, moving others, and adding intense coloring, Carter changes the work鈥檚 impact. The shapes, interlocked in dynamic tension, create a rhythmic pattern across the wall like the notes on a musical score.
This implied motion is an important concept for Carter, who sees moving forward as a sign of hope. The mural, with its dramatic scale, can be seen as a billboard promoting equilibrium against instability. Carter鈥檚 Shifting Perspectives provides us with a visual metaphor for maintaining or shifting our own perspectives鈥攅specially when living through fraught and challenging times.
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Throughout her career, Nanette Carter has used the language of abstraction鈥攕hape, line, color, and texture鈥攖o reflect the world around her. For the past thirty years, she has addressed issues weighing on contemporary society through large Mylar collages. Carter鈥檚 ongoing series, Shifting Perspectives, alludes to recent changes she finds disturbing: an increasingly polarized Congress, threats to Democracy, the erosion of women鈥檚 rights, the rise of political extremism, and anxiety about climate change. The monumentally scaled work that will be on view in the Laurie Art Stairway reinterprets one of these earlier collages, Shifting Perspectives #6 (2024), and transforms it into a vibrant and striking mural.
For this new version, Carter digitally alters her original composition of precariously balanced shapes climbing up the wall. By rotating elements of the original composition, moving others, and adding intense coloring, Carter changes the work鈥檚 impact. The shapes, interlocked in dynamic tension, create a rhythmic pattern across the wall like the notes on a musical score.
This implied motion is an important concept for Carter, who sees moving forward as a sign of hope. The mural, with its dramatic scale, can be seen as a billboard promoting equilibrium against instability. Carter鈥檚 Shifting Perspectives provides us with a visual metaphor for maintaining or shifting our own perspectives鈥攅specially when living through fraught and challenging times.
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