Grand Rapids Arts Museum | Permanent Collection
2007
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Grand Rapids, Michigan (Sept 1, 2007) - In 2002 Christopher Carter, a recent graduate of U.C. Berkeley, spent a summer living in New Zealand and studying the art of the Maori people. His own multi-ethnic background had earlier drawn him to African-American and Native American wood carving traditions. A series of monumental carved columns incised with abstract animistic imagery in low relief were the result of this exploration. From this series Carter created molds and cast several of the columns in bronze. A special installation of Carter’s Totemic Columns, 2007, two freestanding columns, each eight feet high, will be placed on the patio of the museum’s sculpture courtyard in September.
Born in New Mexico and raised in Boston, in the summer of 1981, when fifteen-year old Carter was a Visual Arts student at Interlochen Arts Camp in northern Michigan, he began to imagine a career an artist. He received a BFA from MICA [Maryland Institute College of Art], with a specialization in printmaking and multi-media animation. During graduate school at University of California, Berkeley, where he received his MFA in 1995, his interest in sculpture intensified. He began to work in a variety of materials and create installations and assembled works. His sculpture was shown at Art Basel Miami in 2004 and he often exhibits his work in galleries in the San Francisco Bay area where he lives with his wife Tracey and daughter Skylar.
Carter’s career in multi-media animation has continued and at present he is Creative Director of Maverix Studios, which creates animation for film and computer based video programs. He has worked on projects with HBO, Hewlett Packard, National Geographic, and Miramax.
Christopher Carter will be the featured artist during our first Friday Night program on Opening Day of the new GRAM museum. He will speak on his work at 6:00pm on Friday, October 5.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Grand Rapids, Michigan (Sept 1, 2007) - In 2002 Christopher Carter, a recent graduate of U.C. Berkeley, spent a summer living in New Zealand and studying the art of the Maori people. His own multi-ethnic background had earlier drawn him to African-American and Native American wood carving traditions. A series of monumental carved columns incised with abstract animistic imagery in low relief were the result of this exploration. From this series Carter created molds and cast several of the columns in bronze. A special installation of Carter’s Totemic Columns, 2007, two freestanding columns, each eight feet high, will be placed on the patio of the museum’s sculpture courtyard in September.
Born in New Mexico and raised in Boston, in the summer of 1981, when fifteen-year old Carter was a Visual Arts student at Interlochen Arts Camp in northern Michigan, he began to imagine a career an artist. He received a BFA from MICA [Maryland Institute College of Art], with a specialization in printmaking and multi-media animation. During graduate school at University of California, Berkeley, where he received his MFA in 1995, his interest in sculpture intensified. He began to work in a variety of materials and create installations and assembled works. His sculpture was shown at Art Basel Miami in 2004 and he often exhibits his work in galleries in the San Francisco Bay area where he lives with his wife Tracey and daughter Skylar.
Carter’s career in multi-media animation has continued and at present he is Creative Director of Maverix Studios, which creates animation for film and computer based video programs. He has worked on projects with HBO, Hewlett Packard, National Geographic, and Miramax.
Christopher Carter will be the featured artist during our first Friday Night program on Opening Day of the new GRAM museum. He will speak on his work at 6:00pm on Friday, October 5.
