Blake Carter

Blake Carter is an artist based in Tacoma, Washington. His mostly figurative work attempts to embrace dichotomies: realism and abstraction, control and accident, individualism and anonymity, and “high-brow” versus “low-brow” art. Blake often focuses on people who are seen but overlooked, such as pedestrians crossing the street, people doing yard work, or crowds of scooter drivers at a busy intersection in Taipei. They’re everyday people who could be doing well or not so well, yet look similar in passing if one bothers to look. These people might seem only a backdrop to our everyday lives but could fascinate a child looking out of a car or train window. He believes that everyone has a story to tell, or at least a story for you to imagine, if you look closely.