Carter Potter

Art Brokerage: Carter Potter American Artist: With a nod to the industry that dominates his native Los Angeles, Carter Potter creates minimalist compositions, which he calls "paintings," out of discarded strips of film. He has always worked with found materials and objects, and for almost 15 years he has been focusing on film. To make his works, Potter stretches the strips across canvases in overlapping horizontal bands, or in interwoven vertical and horizontal strips, creating luminous fields of hazy color that resolve into legible words, marks, and images upon closer inspection. Potter uses the image-less ends of the strips as well as their image-rich middle sections. He approaches his work with a sense of irony and awareness of the perceived obsolescence of both painting and film in the digital age, claiming that he is "using the bones of cinema to build the velvet coffin of painting." Listings wanted.