Description
ARTIST STATEMENT
My work across media uses fracture and fragmentation as both a formal language and a way of understanding experience. Across photography, sculpture, and works on paper, I find ways to cut, separate, and reassemble as a way to reflect a world that reveals itself to me in parts. Vision is partial; we can only perceive the world in pieces: buildings assembled from industrial materials, bodies composed of merged fragments, and landscapes defined by shifting planes and angles. I prize rupture in life and nature as an inflection point through which change can happen. The new perspective that emerges from the fracture might be lyrical, uncomfortable, or idiosyncratic.
The poet Anne Carson wrote: “what we are engaged in when we do poetry is error / the willful creation of error / the deliberate break and complication of mistakes / out of which may arise / unexpectedness.” Similarly, my work looks for the mistakes and ruptures in nature and life as a way to seek the unknown.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Charlotte Gould is a New York-based artist whose multimedia works across photography, sculpture, and works on paper use fracture and fragmentation as a formal language. In 2024, Gould began formal studies in photography under Janette Beckman and Silvio Wolf at the School of Visual Arts, and she is currently mentored by documentary photographer Marissa Roth. In addition to her studio practice, Gould is a running coach and the founder of Mothers Across America, an award-winning nonprofit running organization dedicated to supporting women and girls through goal-based running programs.
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