Grounded 60
2012-14
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Grounded 60 marks a shift in both subject and process. After years of working through slow, layered surfaces by painting, sanding, waiting, and painting again, Carter wanted to move differently. The waiting gave way to motion. The body wanted to stay in it. The paintings needed speed, mess, and momentum.
The series draws from Carter’s experience of growing up in the 1960s, not in a literal sense but emotionally. The work is busy, layered, and expressive, mirroring the chaos, color, and cultural intensity of that era. Paint is flung, dragged, and pushed across the surface in a way that feels physical, even performative.
Grounded 60 isn’t about nostalgia. It’s about energy. The work holds the wildness of memory, the noise of a time period, and the desire to meet it with the body fully engaged: painting as movement, as rhythm, as lived experience.
Grounded 60 (Prequel), 1997, Acrylic on Canvas, 108x72in.
Grounded 60 1, 2012, Acrylic on canvas 24x24in.
Grounded 60 3, 2012, Acrylic on canvas, 96x48in.
Grounded 60 4, 2012, Acrylic on canvas, 36x36in.
Grounded 60 5, 2012, Acrylic on Canvas, 72x72in.
Grounded 60 6, 2012, Acrylic on canvas, 16x16in.
Grounded 60 6a, 2012, Acrylic on canvas, 24x24 in.
Grounded 60 6b, 2012, Acrylic on canvas 16x16in.
Grounded 60 10, 2013, Acrylic on canvas, 72x72in.
Grounded 60 11, 2013, Acrylic on canvas, 60x60in.
Grounded 60 14, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 72x72in.
Grounded 60 17, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 24x24in.
Grounded 60 18, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 24x24in.
Grounded 60 19, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 36x36in.
Grounded 60 21, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 36x36 in.
Grounded 60 22, 2014, Acrylic on canvas, 36x36in.