Joaquin Carter

Visual art suffers in the public sphere from fleeting assumptions that great works are created in unadulterated, spontaneous 'bursts.' Notions of 'constructing' the artwork or illuminating the process of its creation are often dismissed as practices of an artist less 'inspired'. New York-based visual artist Joaquin Carter's practice is a glimmering antidote to this fallacy. While he revels in the unpredictable and the unplanned, Carter brings over three decades of experience as a practicing architect to the field of painting. His objects behave as potentially inhabitable environments and uncontrolled imaginative arenas. Carter highlights the 'procession and ritual' inherent in the architectural body; works that hypothesize the existence of an object that may be displayed as an aesthetic exercise and may also be simultaneously explored from within. His paintings are, effectively, testing grounds for new forms of experience challenging the viewer's approach to a structure serving the purposes of shelter, entertainment and discovery.

Joaquin Carter was born in Sonora, México in 1964. He received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Arizona in 1988. Further studies included a six-month residency in Mexico City in a jo...

Ba. in Architecture.