New Work by Carrie Fonder

Carrie Fonder (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist that moves between video, performance, sculpture, image making and site interventions. The core thread of her work is an interventionist strategy and a strong sense of humor. Using humor as an investigative tool, Fonder’s work explores issues of power and complicity through what is otherwise kitsch, abject, sometimes delightfully gross, and often playful. The mundane stuff of life: mud puddles and underwear, goats and party steamers; populate a new temporary world where the rules seem to be missing. Grounded in the perpetual recycling of ideas and materials, utilizing what is often overlooked or disregarded in life, her work speaks to the underbelly of our everyday experiences. It asks, what here do we take for granted? 

Fonder’s newest video installation, Non Sequitur, meditates on cycles of ideas, life, and physical materials. In it, she explores entropy, the cyclical patterns of nature as well as the messiness of a lark, or unexpected turn. The term ‘non sequitur’ translates from Latin to mean “it does not follow.” Embracing this ethos, this installation reflects fractured roving thoughts and mirrors the futile effort to ‘keep it together’. Through the animated duplication of her sculptural works, she invites viewers to reflect on how the sausage is made–within her work and beyond. 

Carrie Fonder earned her MFA in sculpture at Cranbrook Academy of Art and is a Fulbright Nehru Award recipient. Her work has been featured in various solo and group exhibitions in various galleries and museums, including Good Children Gallery and New Orleans Museum of Art in New Orleans, LA; Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN; The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY; Acadiana Center For the Arts, Lafayette, LA; Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN; The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE; Good Sport, London, ON, Canada; and Mono8 Gallery, Manila, Philippines. She has participated in various residencies, including Stove Works, the Vermont Studio Center, the Wassaic Project, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Popps Packing. She is currently an Associate Professor of Art at the University of West Florida in Pensacola, Florida.

OPENING DURING AUGUST ARTWALK

AUG 9 @ 6 PM

Generous funding for this exhibition and related programming is provided by: