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NANETTE CARTER (1954 - ) Point-Counterpoint #6.
Oil on canvas with collage, 1996. 482x419 mm; 19x16 1/2 inches. Signed in pencil, verso.
Provenance: acquired from June Kelly Gallery, NY, with the gallery label on the frame back, private collection, New York.
Nanette Carter uses abstraction as a means to an end; she expresses socio-political ideas through a non-objective vocabulary. Color, line, and geometry give her a means to express her concern for humanity. Using technology, architecture, and composition, Carter has a decades-long career analyzing shifts in our society and self-expression.
Artist and educator Nanette Carter attained a BA from Oberlin College in 1976, studied at Accademia Belle Arti, Perugia, IT, 1975, and gained an MFA from Pratt Institute of Art in 1978. Recent exhibitions include Shape Shifting, Berry Campbell, NYC, 2022, Forms Follow Function, Hunterdon Art Museum, NJ, 2022, A Survey, 30 Years of Work by Nanette Carter, N'Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI, 2021, and Esperanza en Armonia, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba, 2021. Carter has recieved many recent awards and grants including the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, 2021, Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy, in conjunction with the Pratt Institute, 2021, the Pratt Faculty Development Fund Award, 2018, The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, 2014, and The Artists' Fellowship Inc., NY, 2013.
