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I am a transdisciplinary artist, meaning that my artwork is first and foremost research based and from that research the disciplines utilized filter across a number of different production methods to create the objects of my practice. I describe my work as multisensorial, layered, and meditative. The focal points of my research are ecologies, communal practices, kinship, material histories, currency, and socioeconomic/sociopolitical boundaries. My heritage of being Black and Mvskoke is reflected through my research and is a point of departure for what I call the revolutionary promise embedded in my work. This promise asserted through the consideration of history and action towards futures in a more equitable world. My preferred methods of production end in works on paper, print material, internet based archives, multimedia and sculptural installations, and performances. Much of my work is rendered through abstraction, narrative, poetry and embodied activities that often have a historical, social, spiritual, and/or ritual component.
The most compelling artwork for me are things that have analogies across cultures such as stories of origins, superhumanity, afterlives, and love stories. Inside these contexts, there are points of consideration that link the individuals interacting with objects to an often esoteric world of lived experiences made tangible through our reasoning of the world. In the context of material waste, media bombardment, state intervention, and religiosity, I find joy and provocative thought in tending to the proverbial soil where my efforts hope to sprout for those I may never know, getting it out the mud as is a common colloquism. Ultimately I see my work as a kind of archive of research compressed through forms in conversation and commentary with material as culture revealing itself in fragments across a grand timeline.
ABOUT
NEE OCTOBER 2, 1986
XXAVIER EDWARD CARTER
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Xxavier Edward Carter (b. 1986) was born in Dallas, Texas. Over 12 years of compulsory education, Xxavier attended 8 schools in the DFW Area. The eldest child of professional athlete, Russell Carter, and saleswoman, Melody Missick, embodiment and communication were foundational to his upbringing as well as flexibility in new environments. Xxavier attended Stanford University, receiving a BA in Studio Art after studying Political Science and playing Football. After 7 years of art world immersion in the SF Bay Area, Western Europe, and Seoul, South Korea Xxavier returned to Dallas to receive his MFA from Southern Methodist University, the alma mater of his father, in 2019.
Xxavier was a recipient of the Arch and Anne Giles artist award from the Dallas Museum of Art in 2011. Xxavier was a fellow at the Yerba Buena Center for the arts in 2016. In 2020 the Nasher Sculpture Center acquired artwork from Xxavier followed by an acquisition by the Dallas Museum of Art in 2022. Xxavier has developed and presented projects as a performance artist for the Fort Worth Modern in Fort Worth, Texas and Franklin Furnace Archive in New York City. Xxavier is also a poet with several published novels, poetry books, and academic texts. Xxavier has been a part of residencies in Vietnam, South Korea, Spain, Morocco, Mexico, France, and England.
Xxavier is committed to the concepts of returns, community, ecology, humanity, abstraction, and poetry. His career has been established through travel and the intimate connections made through sharing his artwork, telling his story, and the philosophies that have molded his practice as an educator of Fine Art Practices. Ongoing collaborations through these networks continue to fruit as he is currently based in Dallas, Texas. He is the Head Artist and Engineer of Goldfish Dreams, an artistic publication and production house based in Dallas, Texas and a cofounder of Empire of Dirt Art Collective. He also is the writer of the substack, Location Remote, a satirical and autobiographical artist correspondence manifest through blogs, podcasts, newsletters and social media incursions.