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Close-up blue portrait of Claire Carter with closed eyes and her tattooed hand resting beside her face

Nothing is ordinary
once you decide
it matters.

Claire Carter

ART IS
EVERYWHERE.

VALUE IS ASSIGNED.

Claire Carter is a multidisciplinary artist who transforms familiar objects, images, and language to question how meaning and value are created. Working across painting, found objects, furniture, clothing, and interiors, her practice brings together appropriation, nostalgia, humor, and the beauty of what is often overlooked.

Through acts of intervention, she explores the boundaries between art, design, and everyday life. Nothing is ordinary once you decide it matters.

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Art is a perspective.

Selected body of work · 2026

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RESURGENCE

01 Texts From Heaven by Claire Carter: a vivid pink, red, and black portrait of Virgil Abloh against neon green, layered with handwritten text, blue gestures, architectural collage, and a dove carrying the title

TEXTS FROM HEAVEN

Mixed media · 2026

25.5″ W × 48″ H

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A portrait of Virgil Abloh built through saturated color, handwritten fragments, collage, and instinctive marks. Neon green surrounds a face rendered in pink, red, and black, while architectural imagery, a checkerboard, and a blue dove carrying the title create a layered conversation between art, fashion, and spirit.

Created through what Carter describes as spiritually channeling messages from Abloh, the painting carries that experience into its surface. Within Resurgence, it becomes a statement of creative freedom and trust in intuition, exploring how another artist’s influence can remain present and become part of new work.

06 Ok Then by Claire Carter: a layered face in gray, blue, and rust red with burgundy lettering and a bright green paint drip

OK THEN

Mixed media on canvas

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Resurgence is a record of choosing the work fully—without waiting for permission, recognition, or the perfect moment.

Ongoing body of work

RENEW

Art is everywhere.
It begins with how we choose to see.

Renew breathes new life into existing objects, furniture, clothing, and art. Through reuse and transformation, I explore the beauty and possibility in things we might otherwise overlook.

Working with what already exists is part of my commitment to a more sustainable art practice. Renew also explores how an object’s meaning and perceived value change when it enters a new context. Across art, design, fashion, and functional objects, I work with humor, nostalgia, and the histories these things already carry. Their former lives remain visible as something new takes shape.

Front and three-quarter views of a seated Buddha sculpture painted in vivid shades of blue, with worn surface textures, against a neutral studio background

Renew · 2026

Untitled (Blue Buddha)

Found Buddha sculpture and spray paint

Untitled (Blue Buddha) begins with a found decorative sculpture and the possibility of seeing it again. Repainted in shades of blue using spray paint, the familiar seated figure takes on a different visual presence. The color draws on Yves Klein’s use of ultramarine, bringing that reference into contact with an object that might otherwise blend into its surroundings.

The transformation preserves the sculpture’s history. Wear, uneven surfaces, and traces of its previous finish remain visible beneath and alongside the blue. These details give the work its particular character: a renewed surface carries the evidence of an earlier life. Color brings attention back to the folds, contours, and small imperfections of an already existing form.

Within Renew, the sculpture explores how a shift in color and context can change the attention an object receives. Its decorative origins remain part of the work. By working with what is already here, Carter invites a closer look at the beauty and artistic possibility held in familiar, overlooked things.

Studio views of a glossy red rocking chair with tan and brown monogram upholstery, including seat and frame details

Renew · 2026

Untitled (GG Rocker)

Vintage tubular steel rocking chair, paint, and GG monogram jacquard upholstery

Untitled (GG Rocker) brings together a vintage tubular steel rocking chair, a vivid red finish, and GG monogram jacquard upholstery. The chair’s looping frame and familiar proportions evoke the domestic interiors of the 1980s and ’90s. Against that sense of familiarity, the saturated color and patterned seat introduce the visual language of luxury fashion.

The monogram becomes a way to explore perceived value. An everyday piece of furniture acquires different associations when a recognizable pattern enters the picture. The work asks how much of our response belongs to the object’s form, usefulness, or craftsmanship, and how much comes from the status we attach to a symbol. Nostalgia and aspiration occupy the same seat.

As functional art within Renew, the rocker keeps its relationship to everyday life. It remains a chair while also becoming an object to consider and display. Its transformation connects furniture, fashion, and reuse, suggesting that a familiar possession can support a new identity without losing the history that made it worth revisiting.

Framed black-and-white Think different portrait with a vivid blue painted block extending across the lower image, mat, and frame

Renew · 2026

Think Different

Found Apple “Think Different” Dalai Lama print, found frame and mat, and paint

42.5 × 36″

Think Different begins with a found Dalai Lama print from Apple’s “Think Different” campaign, together with a found frame and mat. A field of vivid blue covers the lower portion of the assembled piece. Inspired by Yves Klein’s use of blue, the painted area moves continuously across the image, its surrounding mat, and the frame that contains it.

This uninterrupted band changes how the separate parts relate to one another. The frame becomes part of the painted surface, and the mat participates in the composition. Above the blue, the portrait and campaign language remain recognizable. The existing image retains its cultural associations even as the intervention changes what can be seen.

For Carter, the words “Think Different” felt like a demand to think differently. The phrase became a challenge to reconsider the very object carrying it: to see beyond its familiar presentation and imagine what else it could become. The painted intervention gives that demand a physical response. Within Renew, the work explores transformation through partial concealment, retaining the original object’s cultural memory while changing the context through which it is seen.

Reworked reclining nude with red eyes, large blue WERK lettering outlined in dripping red paint, and a black-and-white cat collage between the figure’s legs

Renew · 2026

WERK

Paint and collage on a reproduction print after Amedeo Modigliani

WERK brings contemporary culture into a reproduction of a reclining nude by Amedeo Modigliani. Carter alters the existing image with paint and collage, introducing references that shift the figure into a conversation about Gen Z, leisure, and the expectation to be productive. The title plays on the stereotype of a generation dismissed as lazy, using a familiar cultural image as the setting for that provocation.

The figure’s red eyes suggest the effects of THC. A collaged “pussy cat” emerges between her legs, turning a literal image into a sexual pun. Oversized blue lettering, outlined in dripping red paint, fills the surrounding space. Together, these additions bring humor, graffiti, and internet language into contact with the reclining pose.

The tension between the word WERK and the figure at rest gives the piece its central joke. It invites questions about who gets called idle, how leisure is judged, and what counts as work. As part of Renew, the altered reproduction retains its recognizable source while becoming a vehicle for a different cultural moment.

Earlier work · 2022

REVELRY

Revelry documents a period of excess, experimentation, and becoming. Nightclubs, drugs, drinking, money, desire, and relationships became ways of trying on different versions of a life.

Across these seven works, the pursuit of attention, pleasure, and connection meets the emptiness that can follow. It is a series about becoming authentic through trial and error.

01 / 2022 Expressive portrait with a spiked collar, crown motifs, and layers of pink, blue, green, and orange paint.

Rockstar

Mixed Paints on Canvas

24 × 36″ · 2022

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Rockstar explores the desire to be seen, recognized, and counted among the stars. It looks at the willingness to do whatever it takes to become famous, even at the cost of authenticity: chasing an image of success before understanding what actually matters.

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02 / 2022 Portrait of a woman layered with yellow drips, bright pink lips, and a blue Fanta logo.

tschüss!

Mixed Paints on Canvas

25 × 40″ · 2022

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tschüss! explores the search for fulfillment through desire, attention, and distraction. Layers of attraction and excess offer a temporary escape, while an underlying sense of emptiness remains. The work considers the tension between wanting more and finding enough.

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03 / 2022 Abstract figure on blue with a pink brain, exposed teeth, a green money bag, and black paint drips.

Night Shift

Mixed Paints on Canvas

30 × 40″ · 2022

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Night Shift dives into the minds of exotic dancers, the patrons who come to see them, and the hedonistic lifestyle surrounding them. Money, standards, and desire blur together in a world where pleasure and transaction are difficult to separate.

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04 / 2022 Colorful portrait with purple eyelids, a broken red heart, patterned clothing, and the word Queen.

Queen

Mixed Paints on Cardboard

38 × 51″ · 2022

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Inspired by Marsha P. Johnson, Queen confronts the violence and hypocrisy directed at the very women people turn to for desire and intimacy. In Carter’s telling, her hands are tied: men unable to face their own desires turn their shame against the woman who fulfills them. The work holds that contradiction alongside her dignity and strength.

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05 / 2022 Figure in sunglasses and a red bandana beside a sports car, private jet, and colorful flower, with This Could Be Us lettering.

This Could Be Us

Mixed Paints on Canvas

30 × 40″ · 2022

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This Could Be Us is about wanting a wild partner who wants the same life: fame, money, beautiful things, and all the fun that comes with them. The fantasy is shared excess and a life without limits. But beneath that imagined togetherness is the reality of being there alone.

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06 / 2022 Figure with head in hands beside a bottle, scattered money, and a dancer silhouette in saturated blue, purple, and yellow.

2:39am

Mixed Paint and Pastel on MDF

16 × 24″ · 2022

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2:39am captures the moment just before the clubs and bars close. The money is spent, the drugs have been taken, and hours of consumption have left you depleted. You are caught in the argument with yourself: keep the party going, or finally call it quits.

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07 / 2022 Blue-haired woman holding a champagne glass and a money bag, surrounded by a fence of pharmaceuticals with the Eiffel Tower behind her.

Putain!

Mixed Paint on Canvas

16 × 20″ · 2022

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Putain! depicts a woman basking in her success, surrounded by a fence of pharmaceuticals. She has made it, no matter the cost. The work explores the tension between the life she has achieved and what it takes to sustain it.

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About / Claire Carter

CLAIRE
FUCKING
CARTER

I CAN’T
BE BOXED
IN.

I make the life
I want to live in.

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I’ve never been interested in staying in one lane.

My work moves between painting, objects, furniture, fashion, design, and whatever comes next. I follow an idea wherever it takes me. A canvas, a chair, a piece of clothing, or a found image can all become a place to begin.

The connections between my pieces run deeper than a shared look. They come from the same instincts, questions, memories, humor, contradictions, and obsessions. Sometimes those connections are obvious. Sometimes you have to look a little harder. I like that.

I think of my practice as a mystery unfolding. Each piece reveals something about how I see the world, and the connections emerge as you spend time with the work. Cohesion lives in that ongoing conversation, with room for surprise and change.

I’ve never followed the rules, and I won’t be starting any time soon.

Expect the unexpected.

PUBLICATIONS

Geneviève’s Collection

Claire Carter: The DC Artist Turning Instinct Into Art — and Making Fashion Pay Attention

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ARTIST CV

Claire Carter

Exhibitions, press, creative experience, and education.

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Private commissions

LET’S MAKE
SOMETHING
THAT STAYS.

Original commissions are developed intuitively for the person and space. Available formats include 24 × 36, 24 × 48, 40 × 60, and large-scale custom work.

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