Do Ya' Wanna' Dance, mixed media sculpture

Doug Carter’s “Cultural Debris”
April 13 – May 6, 2012
James North Studio
328 James North, Hamilton, ON

“Cultural Debris:  A Flea Market Art Exhibit”was originally presented
by the Niagara Artists Centre at their Factory Outlet Flea Market Gallery
in St. Catharines over the summer of 2011.  NAC had approached me about doing an exhibition mostly using things found in flea markets. 
“Cultural Debris”, the exhibit, is a collection of work created by manipulating and assembling objectsI found in Niagara’s largest emporium of cast-off goods, the Factory Outlet Flea Market. It was a veritable archaeological dig into the past several decades of Western pop culture. This exhibit responds to
a range of considerations including the waste generated by a throw-away society of material consumerists as well as the redolence and nostalgia
that lost objects hold. 

From 1962 through 1995 Doug played the 'blues' bass on the local &
Ontario club scene most notoriously with childhood friend,
blues harmonica virtuoso Richard Newell aka King Biscuit Boy
as well as with Hamilton guitar hero, Guitar Mikey McMillan.
In August 2010 Doug's music memoir
"Cool Fool, Blues Rockin' In The Hammer"
was published by Seraphim Editions
Check it out at coolfoolthebook.com

Doug's current music project is "Out of the Box"
a CD that he co-wrote with Guitar Mikey
released on Ear Wig Music (CD 4965) April 17, 2012
Click here to check out a track, "Blues Head"

From 1994 through 2004, Doug Carter was administrator and program
coordinator at the Dundas Art and Craft Association's "Carnegie Gallery"
a non-profit gallery dedicated to the promotion of regional art and crafts,
located in Dundas, Ontario. Over his ten years at the Carnegie Gallery,
Doug was responsible for seeking out and staging the following invitational
group exhibitions: "Monoprints & Monotypes", "The Drawing Show",
''Regional Sculpture: Past, Present, Future", "Self-Portraits",
"15 Women Photographers" and "The United State of Assemblage".

Mel Brown Live At La Luna, Hamilton, early 1990s
Providencetown style relief print

In the 70's an interest in fine art found Doug starting to create visual part
in the style of Kurt Schwitters & Richard Hamilton. This lead to a year of studying painting with Gordon Perrier at the Dundas Valley School of Art,
in Dundas, Ontario. Printmaking & drawing at ‘live’ entertainment venues followed
exposure to the German Expressionists and viewing an exhibition
by Franz Masreel at the Art Gallery of Ontario in the early 80's

Doug was born and educated in Hamilton and Dundas, Ontario, Canada.
He creates constructions, drawings, prints and paintings. Doug is a longtime participantin the Greater Hamilton area visual art scene participating in over
30 group exhibitions since 1973 as well as having several solo & two man exhibitionsincluding a solo exhibition combining oil painting with assemblage,
“Too Close For Comfort: I Can See America From My Back Door”, at the Carnegie Gallery, Dundas, in September 2006.

In 1999, Doug conceived of, participated in and curated "BEAFRAID!"
for the Art Gallery of Hamilton's "Countdown To The Millennium" series.
Along with Doug, "BEAFRAID!" included Hamilton artists
Ray Cinovskis, Chriseddy, Chris Hartnett, Brian Kelly & Jim Mullin
working with the concept of recycling discarded computer components
as 'fine art" and commenting on other computer /new technology.

In December 2004, Doug left the Carnegie Gallery and Dundas.
After spending 2 ½ years living in Wainfleet Township along the Lake Erie
south shore, he is now living and making art beside the Welland Canal
in historic Humberstone, Port Colborne, Ontario. Check out recent exhibitons,
"This, That and the Other", prints, 2011 and "Juke Joints Jumpin', drawings at
dougcarter.wordpress.com.

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