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16/1/2004

Nathan Carter

Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York

Shropshire to speedbird outbound: what's your actual?

Somewhere between narration and abstraction, the visual language of Nathan Carter's work emerges from a synthesis of fictional geographic references and abstract fragments that allude to the transmission of radio, wireless, and telephonic information, to borders, and to accelerated movement.

Carter's second solo exhibition in New York consists of eight wall-based wooden relief maps. Elements of the sculptures visualize the complexity of a multi-layered experience -- the sense of hearing the crackle of a CB conversation overlapping the sound of a radio tuned to an offshore pirate station. Interacting shapes evoke the mixing and crossing of wireless-transmitted data, the coded language of air traffic control conversations, and ship-to-shore weather reports.

Colors and forms recall sports uniforms, nautical flag design, military regalia, and high visibility symbols indicating obstacles such as antennas. The topographical structure of the maps are further defined by icons of national identity -- flags of fictional countries, seals of fictional cities, and colors of fictional conflicting militias.

The maps narrate a simultaneously told story in which abstract and literal elements represent parallel events -- trajectories of vehicles emitting broadcasts enroute, marine and air-flight movement, threatened borders, and tragic multinational conflicts.

Nathan Carter has recently participated in group exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Musee d'Art Moderne de Ville (ARC), Paris; and PS1, Long Island City. In 2002 Carter exhibited at Art Statements, Art Basel, Switzerland. Recent solo exhibitions include Galerie Schipper und Krome, Berlin.

Casey Kaplan
416 West 14th Street New York, NY 10014
GALLERY HOURS: TUESDAY ­ SATURDAY 10 ­ 6 PM

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