Bio
SCOTT CARTER (b. 1984, United States) received his MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011 where he was the first recipient of the Eldon Danhausen Fellowship for Sculpture. He previously spent six years as an emerging artist and student in Atlanta, Georgia where he received his BFA in Painting from the Atlanta College of Art / Savannah College of Art and Design – Atlanta. Scott recently attended two funded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont and the Ox Bow School of Art in Saugatuck Michigan. In 2011 he completed a solo exhibition entitled Affect/Effect at the Contemporary Art Center of Las Vegas. In addition, Scott recently had a solo exhibition entitled “Force Majeure” at Linda Warren Projects in Chicago, Illinois. He also took part in a group awards show at Beers Lambert Contemporary in London, where he was the first place winner of the emerging artist award in sculpture. Scott will also be having a solo exhibition with Beers Lambert in 2014. Currently, he is working towards a show at the Evanston Art Center in Evanston, Illinois and will be performing in the 2013 CAFKA Biennial and Open Ears Sound Festival in Kitchener/ Waterloo Canada.

Statement
The connections between humans and the built environment interest me, serving as the primary source material for my work. I formulate calculated assessments of my environment, ultimately manifesting connections between art, architecture, design and environmental systems.

The physical development of my work is related to a tactile sense for materials. Through the process of examining materials and their function, I am interested in bestowing new value and subverting function, while affecting each object/spaces relationship to its surroundings. Translation is an appropriate term that can be used to describe the way I approach projects on a formal basis. In many of my projects you will see a literal translation of physical materials ranging from drywall, carpet and fluorescent lights to wheat grass, paper cups and printed texts. Metaphorically these transitions in context and form align themselves conceptually with my interests in examining the way we experience culture, objects and physical environments.

Through the process of de-construction and re-constitution, I find meaning in the objects, architecture and the visual culture that surrounds me. Beyond the context and appearance of the world I attempt to develop new meanings, nurturing relationships between the viewer/user and the object or environments that we encounter. My efforts amount to a playful and creative critique of the way we experience space and the items that inhabit them. Whether those inhabitants be inanimate objects or ourselves as the viewer I carefully consider each as an integral part of an experience, causing actions and reactions through their proximity to my work.

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