bio
Carter “Crater” Powers is a Boston-based interdisciplinary sculptor pursuing their BFA at the School of Museum of Fine Arts. He synthesizes welding, ceramics, fibers, mold-making, digital fabrication, poetry, and other artistic mediums to create multi-dimensional, immersive installations and objects. Its multidisciplinary practice is concerned with exploring the multifaceted nature of queer embodiment and its intersections with mental illness, interpersonal relationships, medical rhetoric, and the body politic. Their work has been shown in galleries across Massachusetts such as the Provincetown Art Association and Museum and the Tufts University Art Galleries.
statement
My practice is centered around the abstraction of the human form as a method of processing and expressing my experiences within a queer body. Through multimedia depictions of queer embodiments, I reckon with interpersonal trauma and feelings of alienation that stem from navigating the world within a deviant body. I explore how shared experiences of ostracization can act as a pathway to connection and can allow queer individuals to defy suppression of their identities. I am ultimately interested in building and celebrating queer community and camaraderie through immersive and interactive sculptural objects.