From the Artist
Rushing Ahead, along with my body of painting Slightly off Keel, intends to document the new millennium experience. With many advances in technology and biotechnology, trying to keep up during this "information age" is an accomplishment. We are able to tune into the news on television all day and night or go to the internet to research any and everything under and around the sun. The feeling of movement and energy is prevalent through all of my works along with elements of nature. In Rushing Ahead, a liquid mass with defined borders appears to be moving in space. At the bottom of the image are ephemeral gray lines acting as longitudinal icons upset in cartography or mapping. These lines are stagnant forces that help to accentuate those forces in flux.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives recordsWorking with intangible ideas around contemporary issues has been my motivating force. Reading the news about different developments taking place around the world has turned me into a chronicler of our time. How to present these ideas in an abstract vocabulary of form, line, color, and texture is the quest. These are the challenges and creative instinct that intrigues me most.
On one picture plane different textural surfaces, forms, and colors might reside in harmony or in discord. The catalysts, for over four decades, have been the drama of nature in tandem with the drama of human nature.
—Excerpted from https://www.nanettecarter.com/statement, accessed 7-30-21
Born in Columbus, OH, Nanette Carter grew up in Montclair, NJ, where her father served as the city's first African American mayor (1968–1972) and her mother was an educator who became a vice principal in the Paterson (NJ) Public Schools. She gradu...
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