In the peculiar world of Deric Carner's creation, each being birthed is a marvel of nonchalance and ambiguity–tickling, teasing, and triggering embarrassment and delight. These manifestations, the progeny of a fertile and impish mind, are created with such sensuous empathy for the inanimate that they seem to have willed themselves into existence on their own. You may see them as the escapees of the collective modern psyche–bizarre-yet-humdrum, irrational, crossbred, blobular, ambiguous, kinky, and mischievous. - Michelle Levy
BIO
Deric Carner (b. 1975, US/ES) has presented work in solo exhibitions at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Romer Young Gallery, Trestle Projects, Artists' Television Access, and Tent. Rotterdam. Selected group exhibitions have included venues such as SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Goshen Green Farms, Fierman, Present Company, Participant Inc., Artists Space, NurtureArt, Queen's Nails Projects, Southern Exposure, Centre Pompidou, and the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius. Carner has completed residencies at the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts and the MacDowell Colony. He holds an MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands, and a BFA from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Carner’s book Soft Hard Bodies is available at the Whitney Museum, Printed Matter, St. Marks and variousartistsrecords.com. Recent writings were included in the Autumn 2021 issue of The Philosopher. Carner has curated exhibitions including Dread in the Eyes, Midtown and A Place in the Sun at EFA, Ghost Chair at Hamiltonian Gallery, A Dead Dog's Eye at Aquarius, If You Were in My Body at Fierman Gallery, Ways to Lighten Up at Splinters & Logs, The Shhh Sound Was Difficult at Louis V ESP, and Leave the Capital and Sound Device at Root Division.
