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Overview
William T. Carson's work is influenced by the landscapes and cultures in which he grew up — a cattle ranch in rural southeastern Montana and a small island in the Salish Sea. His artwork raises questions about our cultural understandings of fossil fuels and how we value natural materials. Carson studied architecture at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark. He graduated from Colorado College with Distinction in Art Studio in 2015. In 2017, he presented his first solo exhibition Unearth at CAMIBAart Gallery in Austin, Texas. In 2020, Carson was selected as one of the “12 Artists to Know in New Mexico” by Southwest Contemporary; he was also invited to exhibit at the 2020 Salina Biennial. Carson’s time-based sculpture and sound performance “Sixty Million Years Until Now” was recently exhibited at the Missoula Art Museum in 2022. He lives in the mountains outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
"Through my artwork I am searching for new ways to value coal. We often appreciate the earth’s natural resources for their economic value, but what if we look beyond that? I invite those who view my work to approach coal with curiosity in an attempt to reframe their relationship to the material, even if only for a little while. In my time creating art with coal, I have developed a fondness for the qualities of the material that I had previously overlooked, which I hope to share with others through my work." — William T. Carson
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Works
VIDEO
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William T Carson: Sixty Million Years Until Right Now
Artist William T. Carson creates a time-based sculpture and sound performance at the Missoula Art Museum using coal from Montana. Video by Kendall Rock Music by Philippe Bronchtein -
William T Carson: Inside the Artist's Studio
William T. Carson shares more about the process behind his Coal artworks.
Exhibitions-
Winter Selections | 2024
A Group Exhibition 12 - 28 Jan 2024Nüart Gallery is pleased to present Winter Selections, our annual exhibition featuring a curation of our artists whose abstract and figurative work celebrate a constrained winter palette. The exhibition will open on January 12th and through January 28th, 2024.Read more -
Guillaume Seff + William T Carson
Matter in Motion 13 - 29 Oct 2023In "Matter in Motion," Guillaume Seff’s contemporary abstractions on the inner human experience find a resonant counterpart with William T Carson’s conceptual use of geological elements and light, through which the ephemeral instance of thought and material is realized in an enduring and ethereal aesthetic melody.Read more -
Winter Selections
A Group Exhibition 20 Jan - 5 Feb 2023We’re excited to share our annual exhibition Winter Selections, featuring a curation of our artists whose abstract and figurative work celebrate a constrained winter palette . The minimalist environment of...Read more -
Emmett Culligan + William T. Carson + Emilio Lobato
Out of Fire 5 - 21 Aug 2022Nüart Gallery presents “ Out of Fire, ' a group exhibition featuring new work by Emmett Culligan, William T. Carson, and Emilio Lobato . The show features work of powerful...Read more -
William T. Carson + Peter Stephens
Materiality 21 May - 6 Jun 2021Join Nüart Gallery for an exhibition of abstract work featuring Peter Stephens’ acrylic and mixed-media paintings of crisp perceptual depth and materiality as well as the deep material richness of William T. Carson’s works created of raw coal.Read more