Nanette Carter was born in 1954 and grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. She earned her BA from Oberlin College in 1976, during which time she spent a year studying in Italy and traveling. She earned her MFA in 1978 from Pratt Institute of Art. During the 1980s, her work was featured in group and solo exhibitions in New York, among other cities, receiving much recognition. She was a fellow at Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop in 1989. From 1990 to the present, Carter has continually evolved in her work and participated actively in gallery and museum exhibitions. Her shaped works, produced in multimedia on Mylar since 1997, are evocative of concepts in the history of abstract art and reflect the African-American abstract art tradition. In 2007, Carter was chosen by the US State Department to represent the nation at the International Women’s Art Festival in Aleppo, Syria.
In this excerpt, Carter goes into detail about Bob supporting Black artists, “Again in the Black world of ‘70s, ‘80s, ‘90s, New York City, this man was behind all of us…Everyone knew him.”
