bio
Carter “Crater” Powers is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary sculptor who earned their BFA with a minor in Visual and Material Studies at the School of Museum of Fine Arts. Utilizing a diverse range of technical skills— including ceramics, woodworking, metals, fibers, and digital fabrication— he creates speculative functional objects using experimental craft processes. His work resists legibility and categorization by amalgamating characteristics from various types of furniture to construct forms that feel simultaneously familiar and alien. Their work has been shown in galleries across the East Coast including Silvermine Art Gallery, Abigail Ogilvy Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and FX Collaborative.
statement
My practice revolves around abstracting the human form as a way of processing my queer embodiment. I’m interested in creating objects that resist hegemonic modes of design that center cis-heteronormative identities and relationships. I explore how shared experiences of ostracization can act as a pathway to connection and can allow queer individuals to defy the suppression of their identities. An interdisciplinary approach to craft is central to my work as a way of resisting the gendered associations of craft and exploring political potential as a mode of queer world-building.