Victoria Carter

Late at night, in the early months with a newborn looking out at glowing apartments and scrolling on my phone, I felt both connected and profoundly detached from the world.. Deliveries came - diapers, food, nipple balm - alongside a growing mountain of packaging waste. That waste began to infiltrate my work. I started using it to build up the surface of my paintings, both as a formal experiment and as a critique of consumption. My process is exploratory, finding the image through layers of material and paint. Excavation through accumulation. Time and labor becomes embedded in these layers - each addition and revision recording a moment, a shift, a mood.

I'm a British-born painter and printmaker based in New York City, working primarily in oil painting and relief printmaking. My work explores bold, sculptural abstraction - where color, texture, and the body converge. I'm drawn to physicality and experimentation in my process, and I aim to create visceral, emotionally charged compositions that invite close attention. I first trained in printmaking at Bournville Institute of Art in Birmingham, UK, before earning a BA in English Literature from the University of Nottingham and an MA in Individualized Study from NYU. These academic experiences continue to shape my multidisciplinary approach, blending visual and narrative languages in my work. I've deepened my practice through non-traditional paths - with Shoestring Press in Brooklyn and studying with artists Peter Bonner at The Art Students League, and Avery Nelson and Sara Jimenez at NYC Crit Club. I'm influenced by artists such as Phyllida Barlow, Brenda Goodman, and Nickola Pottinger, among others - drawn to their fearless materiality, emotional intensity, and inventive forms. I find inspiration in both the natural world - shells, driftwood, human limbs - and the built environment - skyscrapers, garages, phone apps. I'm interested in how abstraction can capture what it means to be human, and specifically a mother, in a world defined by super-technology.