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 objects I 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.  Doug Carter

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Doug Carter was born and educated in Hamilton and Dundas, Ontario. He creates constructions, drawings, prints, and paintings. Doug is a long-time participant in the Hamilton and area visual art scene participating in many group exhibitions as well as having several solo exhibitions since his art career began in 1973.  A past president of the Hamilton Artists Inc. and administrator of Printspace, from 1994 through 2004 Doug was the administrator and curator of the non-profit Carnegie Gallery in Dundas.  In 2005, Doug moved to work and live in Port Colborne. He is currently a member of the James North Art Collective of Hamilton and Arts Place Gallery, Port Colborne and a board member of Community Artists Niagara, Niagara Falls.

NAC has been presenting work in the Flea Market Gallery since October 2010. “There are all sorts of assumptions about who contemporary art is for and where it should be found,” says NAC’s Minister of Energy, Minds and Resources, Stephen Remus, “we work to make the exciting ideas being shared through visual art available to everyone in places you wouldn’t expect”.