about



b. 1995 Silver Spring, MD


Education


2026        Post-Baccalaurate – Ceramics
 
            Montana State University Bozeman


2022        Bachelor of Fine Arts – Painting
            Hunter College


2017        Bachelor of Science – Computer Science
            University of Maryland, College Park


Current Solo Exhibition


2026        Edges     
            Dean’s Gallery
            Montana State University, College of Art and Architecture
            Bozeman, MT


Group Exhibitions


2025        Ceramics Guild Show
            The Exit Gallery
            Montana State University
            Bozeman, MT

2025        A Kin to Clay, Call for Art
            Tinworks Art
            Bozeman, MT

2023        The M Show
            Parsons the New School 
            New York, NY

2022        Open Tab, BFA Degree Exhibition
            Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery
            Hunter College
            New York, NY

2019        Pop-Up Art Show
            The Canvas by Querencia Studio 
            Hunter College
            New York, NY



Artist Statement

Empty architecture, shadows, and screenshots are my starting point – imagery that conjures vacancy, the placeless in-between. I am drawn to contrast, edges, and boundaries. 


The work is about oscillation and the existence of multiple truths at once. A technological mediation of image into material, aiming for an elevation of the mundane. 


There is an initial artifice to the memes: facile absurdity, saccharine positivity, or escapism, but beneath is a current of sincere longing and levity. I take something ephemeral and common, almost crass or cringe, created in haste for instant, disposable consumption, and spend hours rendering it in the fragile permanence of clay. 


My process is time-intensive, detail-oriented, algorithmic, and inefficient. I create my own rules and turn myself into a human printer. I filter images into halftone or pixelated patterns, and I'm interested in the way the material creates analogue from this binary of dark and light. 


To apply my images to surfaces, I follow lines using a projector as a guide; design stencils with outdated software; carve wooden molds; and transfer multiple silkscreened images. In other work, I layer clay using the nerikomi technique, integrating the pattern into the fabric of the material. 


No matter how mechanical I try to be, there’s always a trace of the hand or tool in the clay. Clay remembers and cracks, hinting at the distortions in our perception. I’m interested in pushing material to the edge of its capability. Loss of image clarity is inevitable, but a feeling remains. Sometimes I distort a picture so much, no one can guess what it started as, and I like knowing the secret.


My aim is for my work to communicate the state of not knowing, to make transitory phases permanent. I search for something within the vacancy and ask why the emptiness is strangely comfortable.



©2026 carter montgomery
contact: carterkmontgomery[at]gmail[dot]com