Stacey M. Carter
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I am an artist whose work offers insight into the changing urban environment through creative observation. My artworks are layered multi media compositions based on a photograph I take and then transform using a unique combination of skilled printmaking techniques and spontaneous expressionistic painting.
For over fifteen years I have made work that draws from the site of my studio at the former Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco. After working on paintings based on my photographs from this same source, I came across 30 negatives of the Naval airship the USS Akron in Sunnyvale in 1932. My mind was transported to the time of the ships and the airships, the marvelous engineering and the heroically ordinary workers who built and operated and maintained the day-to-day activities of the giant vessels. In these paintings I aim to create a sense of scale, give the viewer an appreciation of the achievements of the workers and freeze time, allowing individual histories to be recalled and shared once more. Layered and compositionally rich, this body of work is a study of how experiences define one's environment; it is an acknowledgement of what has passed and its importance to the present.
Stacey Carter 2017
