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Derrick Carter: Looking forward, not looking back


The show running through February —  Black History Month — features new work and reworked older paintings ranging from colorful landscapes to portraits of African American icons. A number of his layered sand and acrylic paintings have a strong textural element because of the tactile nature of the medium and also have a strong textual element because of the message. 
Eye of the Tiger by Derrick Carter
Take, for example, his portrait of Tiger Woods titled “Eye of the Tiger”. The words SPEED, STRENGTH, POWER, and MOBILITY are spelled out in a boldly- colored composition. Carter credits his interest in text to the time he spent studying graphic design in the (now defunct) Art Institute of Indianapolis, which was located in the Pyramids Office Park in Westside Indianapolis.    ....

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