Debra Cartwright
What Will I Be When There is Nothing Left?, (2024)
Interconnected Identities (2024)
Wildseed (2024)
Re-Learning the Lessons of Our Mothers (2024)
Frontline Report (2024)
Shifting Consciousness (2024)
About
Debra Cartwright is an American artist of Bahamian descent who completed her MFA at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ. As the daughter of a gynecologist, she is interested in depicting the relationship between the black female body and American medical history, using paint and mixed media to explore selfhood and her own positioning. Themes around her work include re-embodiment, myth creation, violence, theft and intimacy, illustrated with juicy, gestural brushwork that flirts between figuration and abstraction. In her work, Cartwright explores a critical understanding of the past while also proposing an examination of the present American healthcare system. Cartwright lives and works in New York with recent shows with Fridman Gallery (New York) and at Frieze LA with Welancora Gallery (New York).
Exhibitions
2024
Gestures of the Unseen | Sept 5 - Oct 19, 2024