BIO
AC Carter (b. Birmingham, AL) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives in Los Angeles, CA. Through music, graphic arts, character building, sculpture, video, and painting, AC's work conceptually deals with isolation, unrequited love, gender, and abstraction. A 2020 University of Georgia MFA Fine Arts graduate, AC makes music under their pop persona, Klypi, and currently works in digital arts and commercial media. They recently signed with Wildflowers Talent Agency for modeling. AC previously ran Ad•verse Fest, a music festival in Athens, GA, which featured solo and duo performers across genres, from electronic music to performance art. Additionally, AC has created garments for Kevin Barnes' Of Montreal music video "No Plateau Phase/ No Careerism, No Corruption" and Jennifer Vanilla's performance at MoMA PS1. AC has been featured in publications such as Post-Punk Online, WUSSY Mag, PASTE, New American Painting, and the Nashville Scene. They have attended the Stove Works Residency in Chattanooga in November 2020 and the Wassaic Project Residency in January/February 2022. AC has opened for a variety of artists under other monikers, such as Molly Nilsson, John Maus, Hatchie, Girlpool, Auragraph, and others, and has performed at festivals such as Big Ears, Secret Stages, and Athens Popfest
AC Carter (b. Birmingham, AL) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives in Los Angeles, CA. Through music, graphic arts, character building, sculpture, video, and painting, AC's work conceptually deals with isolation, unrequited love, gender, and abstraction. A 2020 University of Georgia MFA Fine Arts graduate, AC makes music under their pop persona, Klypi, and currently works in digital arts and commercial media. They recently signed with Wildflowers Talent Agency for modeling. AC previously ran Ad•verse Fest, a music festival in Athens, GA, which featured solo and duo performers across genres, from electronic music to performance art. Additionally, AC has created garments for Kevin Barnes' Of Montreal music video "No Plateau Phase/ No Careerism, No Corruption" and Jennifer Vanilla's performance at MoMA PS1. AC has been featured in publications such as Post-Punk Online, WUSSY Mag, PASTE, New American Painting, and the Nashville Scene. They have attended the Stove Works Residency in Chattanooga in November 2020 and the Wassaic Project Residency in January/February 2022. AC has opened for a variety of artists under other monikers, such as Molly Nilsson, John Maus, Hatchie, Girlpool, Auragraph, and others, and has performed at festivals such as Big Ears, Secret Stages, and Athens Popfest
STATEMENT
AC investigates ideas about love, gender deviancy, and authenticity, challenging the idea that the individual is singular rather than multiple in design. Identity is tied to the body, both physically and virtually; it continuously undergoes construction and can be understood as both a building and a webpage. These ways of framing and reframing showcase how identity is prescriptive, and reflect on how absurdity and humor can be useful tools through deliberate disassociation and punk methodologies to celebrate what it means to be a human on planet earth, and perhaps how it must feel to be an alien too.