SOMEWHERE BETWEEN JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE ARCHIVE
Mining the debased archive of, Carter’s re-materialization of the digital image in these collages can be viewed as a creative resurrection of sorts (a la Frankenstein): a dwarf is cut out from a John Wayne Gacy painting, the pictorial negative space between Albert Speer and Hitler is isolated, emphasized and re-spliced.
In these works, the element of “deception” produced by chance, unpredictability, and collaboration in the original game is turned on its head - multiple subjectivities are still at play in a single figure/object, however they are the creation of one person rather than a group. Manifesting somewhere between a scrapbook and a merz, Carter’s “corpses" reveal an array of decals, stickers, overhead transparencies, and other low-tech pedagogical forms that contrast the subjective nature of the personal archive with the didactic nature of research materials. Though sharing the same name, Carter’s Exquisite Corpses are less about the Surrealist parlor game (Cadavre Exquis) than the artist's own strategies of image reception and icon excavation.
SOMEWHERE BETWEEN JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE SERIES
In Grotesque, Matthew Carter presents works dealing with the obliteration, recuperation, and re-animation of the figure through three distinct bodies of work: Exquisite Corpses, a group of mix-media collages Glitter & Scars, a series of unique mirrored works and new mix-media paintings on linen from his ongoing hellequinharlequinclown series.
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