“Karl Carter: A Retrospective,” the first major gallery survey of Carter’s work, will open at Hicks Art Center Gallery Nov. 2 and will continue through Dec. 16.
An accompanying exhibition of Carter’s well-known students’ works will be installed in the Atrium Gallery in Hicks Art Center.
Spanning the last 40 years, the works in the exhibition range from biomorphic abstract wood and art glass sculptures to exuberantly colored functional tableware and lighting.
“His most striking accomplishment is blending subtle and pronounced colors to produce exquisite objects that reveal emotions captured in glass—which we now know is a unique form of matter,” writes Clifford Eberly, exhibitions associate at Hicks Art Center Gallery, and curator of the show.
Inspired by the founders and teachers of the American Studio Glass movement like Harvey Littleton and Dominick Labino, Carter continually returns to his initial attraction to the movement to make pieces where form follows function.
Under his tutelage from 1995, a generation of artists have learned to design and blow glass using the facilities he planned and built in the 3D Arts Building on the campus of Bucks County Community College in Newtown.
This year, Carter retired from Bucks as the Glass Program faculty member in the Arts and Communications Department.
A video including interviews with Carter, his students and colleagues, conducted by Eberly, will be shown on the gallery video monitor.
There will be an opening reception from 4 to 7 p.m. Nov. 3, which is free and open to the public. Carter will give a short artist talk to introduce the exhibition at 4:15 p.m.
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