Michael Carter / pendulum painting

8/22/2022

‘Solstice’ 2017 48x34, Acrylic on Canvas by Michael Carter

Michael Carter, b. 1975, Cambridge, MA, lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, he received a MFA from Claremont Graduate University.

His work is an investigation into metaphysical theories of art and the cultural history of science, philosophy, and religion.

Recent exhibitions include:
Seasons, Los Angeles, CA; Hansell Art Gallery of the Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, CA;
JOAN, Los Angeles, CA; Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and Bucharest, RO; Laband Gallery at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA; the Art Gallery at Glendale Community College, Glendale, CA; Machine Project, Los Angeles, CA; Steve Turner, Los Angeles, CA; and Roberts Projects, Culver City, CA.

‘Making Space’ -Glendale Community College, December 4, 2017

‘Making Space’, sited off an elevated footbridge connecting the Science and Humanities buildings on the campus of Glendale Community College, is a practical investigation into the possibility of universals today. What are the conditions that connect us in the human experience? Gravity is one such condition—an ever-present force that intimately effects our lives yet also is responsible for shaping planets, forming solar systems, and structuring our galaxy. The pendulum is a highly sensitive instrument that facilitates a personal collaboration with this cosmic-scale phenomena. The pendulum series is an encouragement to question a mechanistic understanding of reality and recall to our awareness the infinitely receding and never-crossed boundary of the unknowable.

'Out of Discord Comes the Most Beautiful Harmony'
Philosophical Research Society
October 10, 2018

'Out of Discord Comes the Most Beautiful Harmony' is the simultaneous creation of a cosmic mandala by a monumental-sized 'pendulagraph' and a healing sound-bath by quartz-crystal singing bowls. Together with artist and metaphysician Michael Carter and sound-bowl practitioner Kristin Palombo, the audience will contribute their vibrational presence in seeking to harmonize the impersonal, cosmic law of gravitation and the felt experience of pure sound vibration. 'Out of Discord Comes the Most Beautiful Harmony' proposes the possibility of unifying the grand opposites of our shared reality: finite and infinite; subjectivity and objectivity; form and emptiness; masculine and feminine; cosmic and terrestrial; law and chaos. In this unified field, our consciousness can travel into altered states of being, opening the doors to new conditions of mental and spiritual experience.
Out of Discord Comes the Most Beautiful Harmony
Philosophical Research Society, October 10, 2018

“MICHAEL CARTER: THE SPIRITUAL IN ART"
March 18, 2021
"EMS visited the studio in February 2021 and produced this
17 minute short film. I discuss the origins of my work with the pendulum, Thought-Forms and Theosophy, my performances at the Philosophical Research Society and Nicodim Gallery, and preview new work." -Michael Carter

Watch “MICHAEL CARTER: THE SPIRITUAL IN ART”

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