1878 Gallery
March 6 – May 30, 2021
This exhibition is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Texas Commission on the Arts.
Gregory Michael Carter
Port of Origin
Gregory Michael Carter is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in drawing, painting, collage, and photography. His exhibition, Port of Origin, includes works based on the concept of Black relics and includes materials such as stone, papyrus, silk, basketball flooring, and Newport cigarette cartons. Through these works Carter interrogates the impacts of history on his current life through carefully constructed and coded ideograms that depict connections between various social and political issues. Gregory's practice is rooted in an expanded view of history, with a particular interest in human interaction and how it causes the spread of culture in the modern world.
Gregory Michael Carter (b. Houston, TX) is an artist currently living between Houston, TX and St. Louis, MO, where he is developing an artist residency and community development program. His work has been featured in exhibitions in Houston at Project Row Houses, Texas Southern University, Community Artist Collective, Wedge Space, and Hooks-Epstein Gallery, as well as exhibitions at Monaco, St. Louis, MO; Merton D. Simpson Gallery, New York, NY; and MadisMad Gallery, Madrid, Spain. He is the co-founder of Third Ward’s Finest. His work has been featured in New American Paintings Midwest issue #149 in 2020 and West issue #90 in 2010. Carter is a 2021 recipient of an Idea Fund Award for his project: Machine to Retrieve Reparations.
