Altadena artist brings mixed media, drawings to Brandstater Gallery

Carter is displaying three or four large, mixed media sculptural pieces as well as a few drawings. His exhibit will run Oct. 7 – Nov. 8, with a reception Sun., Oct. 7, 6 – 8 p.m. at the gallery. 

Carter, a native of North Carolina, earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a Master of Fine Arts from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Mich. His work encompasses sculpture, installation art, painting, drawing and printmaking. 

“Generally working in various materials in purposefully mediated ways, the current body of work is drawing on the mediation between material and maker, process and intervention,” he says in an artist’s statement. His drawings are made on white and black paper with colored pencils mediated by a ruler and sometimes stacked paper of varying thicknesses.

“I really like making things,” Carter writes. “Usually labor intensive modular things. Sometimes with color, to yield an affect. Color used in combination with line mimics elements of light logic, transforming the media into something altogether different.”

He continues, “Materiality and the found object---especially an object/material that has equal parts man and nature apparent in it, like poorly sawn pine 2 x 2’s from Home Depot, become an interesting mediation of the two aesthetics. I enjoy the tension created by the coinciding elements.”

Carter has exhibited his work extensively in solo and group exhibitions. Solo show venues include his current representative, Klowden Mann gallery in Culver City, the Haus Gallery in Pasadena, the Spacecraft Gallery in San Diego, and the MorYork Gallery in Los Angeles. Group shows have included those at Cypress College Art Gallery, Gateway to the Sun/Los Angeles International Airport, and the David Allan Hubbard Library ArtSpace at Fuller Theological Seminary. 

Carter also teaches sculpture at Los Angeles Valley College. He comes to Brandstater Gallery through his connection with Gallery Director Tim Musso. 

“I first saw Jamison's work in Culver City three years ago and was impressed with the simple materials he used to construct unexpected and playful colorful sculpture, whether it was plaster, melted black plastic, colored pencil marks or twisted construction planks,” Musso said. “His work encapsulates both controlled and gestural marks to create dissonance and unity simultaneously. The familiar becomes spectacular. I think this exhibit will challenge the La Sierra community and their expectation of what art is and can be.”

Brandstater Gallery hours are Mon. – Thurs., noon – 5 p.m. For further information call 951-785-2170 or visit https://lasierra.edu/brandstater/. La Sierra University is located at 4500 Riverwalk Parkway, Riverside, Calif., 92505. A campus map is available at https://lasierra.edu/campus-map/