DRAWINGS TWO

With excerpts from The New York Times Review of "Mindscapes: 104 Drawings" held at the New Jersey State Museum and the Minneapolis Institute

Profile Face with Trees and Clouds

Green Bucket Head Figure on Left, Strange Horse Like Figure on Right

Man with Orange Suit and Gray Hands Runs on Rocky Road,  Logo Designs in Sky

City Man and Island Woman with White Bird on Rock

Dancing Figure with Rocket, Piano and Twin Towers

Diverse Faces, Red Hand, Red Head, Full Moon on Water

Man in Diapers with Up-Raised Arms, Shadow with Clenched Fists

Spirit Figures and Large Face with Yellow Nose at Dusk

Fat Helmet Man with Red and Blue Hands, Diverse Faces, Moon in Window

Island Wharf with Horse Costume Figure and Pink Ticket Booth

Excerpt from The New York Times, May 31, 1981
Trenton: Offbeat Watercolors by David L. Shirey

...everything derisive that could be said about Mr. Carter's efforts is to their advantage. For it is in their differences — their lack of conventional technical ability, their lack of esthetic refinement, their exotic and rough imagery and their flamboyant and crassly garish colors — that they achieve their spirited vitality.

It is through these components, too, that one becomes intrigued by, and absorbed in, the drawings and subsequently made aware of their unabashed candor and ingenuous impact. What is puzzling, disturbing, unnerving and even vulgar is also frank, honest, fresh and magical.

Thumbing his nose blatantly at art school traditions and stifling esthetic dogmas, Mr. Carter, a resident of North Plainfield, draws whatever comes into his mind. He attempts not to rationalize or justify logically what he is doing, but simply forces his hand to respond to spontaneous, unguarded thought.