My work explores states of intimacy and alienation as they shift through reading, touch, and other states of reception. I engage processes of appropriation, tracing, erasing, reconstructing, and the performative in various media notably the groundless thread drawing and video.
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EXHIBITION RECORD (solo shows marked by *)
2012
Lieder of the Pact (with Andrea Goldman), The Mobile Archive, various
2011
The Eyeballs from Outerspace, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
*Re: Reading the Love Letter, The Reading Room, Dallas, TX
Things Held but Never Understood, The Free Museum of Dallas, Dallas, TX
*Where is the Stud?, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
Suite Art Fair, Dallas, TX
ArtHouse at the Jones Center, Texas Biennial Special Screening, Austin, TX
2010
Saudade, The Transforming State, artsReligare, New Delhi, India
*Friendliness Towards all Things…, Eastfield College, Mesquite TX
Advice and Desire, Temporary Occupants, curated by Iris Bechdol and David Willburn, Eastfield College, Mesquite, TX
Nothing Between You and Me, Member Show, 500X, Dallas TX
feedbackfeedbacklooploop, project space, 500x, Dallas TX (with Andrea Goldman)
2009
Partial Moon, Cheongju International Craft Biennale Craft Competition, Cheongju, Rep. of Korea
drawn/draft/depict, Irvine Valley College, Irvine, CA
Far from the Madding Crowd, Road Agent Gallery, Dallas, TX
Viewfinder, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Faculty Exhibition, The M.A.C., Dallas, TX
*The Love Letter, 500X, Dallas, TX
fremder_fremder, (with Emily Carter), Project Space, 500X, Dallas, TX
Rocket City National, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL
2008
My Own Backyard, Fotofest, Houston, TX and Daimler Headquarters, Fort Worth, TX
*The Supposed Object, 500X, Dallas, TX
The Eyeglasses and the Eyeballs, The Skydive, Houston, TX
Space is a Time Machine, UTD Gallery, Dallas, TX
Inaccessible Landscapes, 500X, Dallas, TX (with Thomas Feulmer)
Tango to the Moon, Redmill Gallery, Johnson, VT (with Thu Kim Vu)
Weather Photos, WeatherPhotos.org
2007
De/(con)struction Site I, Corcoran Museum, Washington, DC (Colorfield Re:mix, screening)
The Functionaries of Time Travel, Art House, Austin, TX
Nest, Danny Simmons Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Recent, Pollock Gallery, Dallas, TX
2006
Build Your Dream, Pollock Gallery, Dallas, TX
New American Talent, Art House, Austin, TX
2005
How the Mind Works, Macalaster College, St. Paul, MN
Gimme Some of That: Appropriating Feminist Strategies, 1926 Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL
Thesis Exhibit (What I Learned from Piano Lessons: 1976-1984), Gallery One, Chicago, IL
Questions. Statements., G2, Chicago, IL
2004
Mend, Crumple/Mend, G2, Chicago, IL
2003
Big Open Nothings: Art from Iceland, Texas Ballroom, Chicago, IL
Finland, Sweden, Holland, Italy, England, Germany, and Chicago,” (curated by Cat Solen and Casey Droege)
The Drawing Show, Unit B Gallery, Chicago, IL
BFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery One, Chicago, IL
PUBLICATIONS
2011
2010
Lakshmi, Rama. “Artists deconstruct city’s frenzied preparations for Commonwealth Games.” Washington Post. Sunday, August 1, 2010
“Where text breaks down to gesture and gesture reassembles to form drawing: Interview with Rebecca Carter by Sarah Nesbit.” www.thepapercrane.org
Fotofest 2010: Participating Spaces, Catalogue
2009
Art This Week, video podcast, interview with Anne Lawrence. Dec. 2009
MaMsie, M(o)ther Trouble, conference website
2008
Puleo, Risa. “Viewfinder: New Images from Texas Artists.” Spot. Houston Center for Photography, Fall/Winter
Muyumba, Walton. “Q&A: Rebecca Carter,” Art and Seek Blog, KERA December 5,
Britt, Douglass, “The View from Here: New Photo Exhibit” Houston Chronicle Oct. 31,
Tosten, Eric. The Dallas Artcast. January 2008
2007
Terranova, Charissa. “Becoming Animal,” Charissa Terranova, Glasstire.com, Oct.
2005
UR Magazine, Vol. 8, Issue 5, May 19 June 15
Kuntz, Katrina. “Drawn to Drawing,” FNews Magazine
Drawn to Drawing curatorial statement, exhibition brochure, Betty Rymer Gallery
Ferguson, Sara & Holmes, Gretchen. “Gimme Some of That: Appropriating Feminist Strategies” Exhibition catalogue
GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
2008 Meadows Summer Fellowship
2007 Meadows School of Art Research/Travel Grant
2006 Southern Methodist University Research Council Grant & Meadows School of Art Research/Travel Grant
1993 Mellon Grant
RESIDENCIES
2010 The WhyNot Place, New Delhi, India
2008 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Catwalk, Catskill, NY
EDUCATION
2005 MFA Fiber and Material Studies, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, IL
2003 BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1993 BA Studio/Art History & Women’s Studies, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2005-09 Assistant Professor of Intermedia, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
2003-04 Studio Assistant to Anne Wilson