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born Los Angeles, California, 1961

Education

1990 MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, California
1987 BA, University of California, Los Angeles, California

Solo Exhibitions

2010 Backpainting, Julie Saul Gallery, New York

2004
Painted Leaders, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
We Cure Everything, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC

2003 Julie Saul Gallery, New York City, New York Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California

2002 Test Results, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

2001 Julie Saul Gallery, New York City, New York

2000 Three T-Rex's & a Rolling Stone + Sunset Strip, Rocket Gallery, London, England

1999 Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1998 Hazy Leaders, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1997 Galerie H.S. Steinek, Vienna, Austria

1995 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1994
Frankly, Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, California Potter's Field, TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Jose Freire Fine Art, New York City, New York

1993 Momentary Contemporary, Los Angeles, California Spacemaker, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, California

1991
Work-Pix, Leader & Fill, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
Film Paintings, The Guest Room, Los Angeles, California

1990 C-Ouch Pain-Tings, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, California MFA Thesis, University of California, Los Angeles, California

Group Exhibitions

2005 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New york (catalogue)

2003
Transparent, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC
Color, Material, and Method, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Gridlock, West Los Angeles College, Los Angeles, California

2002 Attack/Attraction, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, California

2001 The B Sides, Newspace, Los Angeles, California
New Work: L.A. Painting, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, California
New Work: Recent Additions to the Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Masachussetts
Counting Colour, Rocket Gallery, London, England

2000
Site Gallery, Sheffield, England (catalogue) The L.A. Scene, Numark Gallery, Washington D.C.
Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland "my kid could do that," Ron Herman Fred Segal, Los Angeles, California
A Lasting Legacy: Recent Additions to the Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Urban Life, Galerie H.S. Steinek, Vienna, Austria

1999
The Flower Show, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Re-Structure, Grinnell College Art Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell Iowa Shift, ACME., Los Angeles, California
Gridlocked, Rocket Gallery, London, England
POSTMARK: An Abstract Effect, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Duration and Whenever, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1998
Art at Michael's, Michael's, Santa Monica, California
Translucent, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco, California
L.A. Current: Looking at the Light, 3 Generations of L.A. Artists, Art Rental and Sales Gallery, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California
Picture Show: Photo-Based and Video Art from Los Angeles, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1997
In Touch With... ,Galerie + Edition Renate Schröder, Köln, Germany California
Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California (catalogue)
Bastards of Modernity, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1996 True Bliss, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California (catalogue)
Found Footage, Klemens Gasser und Tanja Grunert, Köln, Germany (catalogue)
Getting Physical: New Abstract Painting, Gallery of Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas (brochure)
Private TV, Public Living Rooms, L.A. Freewaves Festival, The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Inside: The Work of Saint Clair Cemin, Joel Otterson, and Others, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, California (catalogue)
L.C. Armstrong, Greg Bogin, John M. Miller, Carter Potter, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1995
Painting Outside Painting: 44th Biennial Exhibition of American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (catalogue)
A Glimpse of the Norton Collection as Revealed by Kim Dingle, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
An Accumulation of Supple Solids..., Littlejohn Contemporary Art, New York City, New York
Greatest Hits, TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Casey Kaplan, New York City, New York International Summer Project

1995
Kunsthalle Lophem, Bruges, Belgium Fabrication: Formal, Found and Funky, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, California (essay)
Time + Space, Food House, Santa Monica, California 1994 Balls, Newspace, Los Angeles, California
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
Screening Space, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Serial, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California Clarity, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Page 4, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York City, New York

1993
Loose Slots, Temporary Contemporary, Las Vegas, Nevada
Indisposable, Steve Hurd Fine Art, Mondo Lot, Santa Monica, California
Group Show, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York City, New York
Heaven Missing - young art l.a., Jose Freire Fine Art, New York City, New York
Salad Days, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Artificial Paradises, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Habitations, InterArt Center, New York City, New York (catalogue)
Los Angeles: Not Paintings?, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California; traveled to
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas (catalogue)
New American Talent: The Ninth Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
Technocolor, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1992
A Three Ring Circus, TRI Gallery at FAR Bazaar, Los Angeles, California
Coming Unraveled, Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California
Abstraction for the Information Age, The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, California
Painting Project, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York City, New York
Abstract Painting, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, California
I to Eye II, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California Working Stiffs, TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Summer Invitational, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, New York
Inaugural Exhibition, TRI Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1991 The Wiled, Wild West Show, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, California

1990 Corporealities, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, California Fresh & Hot, California State University Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Absentbury Show, New Bliss Annex, Pasadena, California 1989 Against Nature, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California

Publications and Reviews

2004
Lawrence, Sidney, "Carter Potter at Numark," Art in America, September
Shaw-Eagle, Joanna, "Light 'Places' and artistic 'Cure'," The Washington Times, January 31 2003
Gleason, Mat, "art angelenos," Modern Painters, Spring: 70-75
Douglas, Sarah, "Carter Potter," The Art Newspaper, July-August
The New York Times, August 1, The New York Sun, June 25 2002
Ollman, Leah, "Potter's Assemblages: A Film of Meaning," Los Angeles Times, 27 September: F24 (illustrated)

2001 Newhall, Edith, "Movie Frames," New York Magazine, 21 May: 102

2000
Clark, Robert, Jeanine Griffin, and Jo Anne Lee, Frame, Site Gallery, Sheffield, England (exhibition catalogue)
Duncan, Michael, "Carter Potter at Rocket" Art in America, September:160
Daly, Catherine, "Kevin Appel and Carter Potter" The Sunday Times, Dublin, Ireland, 16 April
Hartigan, Marianne, "From Memphis to 'Alice in Wonderland'." The Sunday Tribune, Dublin, Ireland, 16 April
"Cool Colorists" dside magazine, Issue 54, April
Three T-Rex's & A Rolling Stone + Sunset Stript, Rocket Gallery, London, England (exhibition catalogue)

1999 Marriner, Robin, "LA Revisited" Contemporary Visual Arts, Issue 25: 23 - 27

1998
Tavish, Mac, "The A List: Pick of the Week of July 22-29" City Pages 22 July:
56 Haines, Gordon, "Carter Potter at Angles" X-Tra Volume 1, No. 5, Spring and Summer: 13-14
Rockwell, Steve, "Carter Potter at Angles" d'Art International no.2, 1 April, May, June: 33
Duncan, Michael, "Buzz Art Buys" Buzz June: 48 Tumlir, Jan, "Carter Potter, Angles Gallery" frieze May: 85

1997
Iannaccone, Carmine, "Surf's Up!: A New Generation of Artists Rides the Wave of the City's Strange Blend of Irreverence, Sensuality and Pop" The Art Newspaper, December: 34
Stuckey, Jay Gould, "Bastards of Modernity: Angles Gallery" Zingmagazine December: 268-269
H.-S., M, "Aus den Galerien: Steinek, Wien" Handelsblatt 7-8
November "Galerie Steinek" Die Presse, 7 November
Glenn, John, "Film and Function: Carter Potter's Custom Canvases Challenge the General Conception of Painting at the Steinek Galerie" Vienna Reporter, November

"Carter Potter" Falter, 24-30 October: 43. "Carter Potter's Recycled Art" Austria
Today, 24-30 October: 145 Christoph, Horst, "Recycling Hollywood" Profile, 20 October: 43
"Austellung Wien: 'Found Footage'" Der Standard ,14 October
"Carter Potter" Vernissage, October 8: 17
DiMichele, David, "Bastards of Modernity' at Angles Gallery" Artweek, April 28.4: 22-23
Hainley, Bruce, "Bastards of Modernity: Angles Gallery" Artforum March: 98-99
Tumlir, Jan, "On Young Art in L.A.." Art Muscle, March: 7-9
Kandel, Susan, "Art Reviews: Modernist Montage" Los Angeles Times 7 February: F16, F30
Young, Paul, "Bastards of Modernity" Buzz Weekly, 14-20 February 19

Collections
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Collection of Eileen and Peter Norton, Santa Monica, California
The Panza Collection, Lugano, Switzerland
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California



Backpainting 2009-2010 [view images]


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