Carrie Fonder
University of West Florida
Carrie Fonder is a sculptor, installation, and video artist whose work uses humor to play with issues of power. Fonder earned her MFA in sculpture at Cranbrook Academy of Art and her BFA in sculpture at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She is a Fulbright Nehru Award recipient and is currently a member of Good Children Gallery in New Orleans, Louisiana. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally from Detroit to New Delhi. Fonder is an Associate Professor of Art at the University of West Florida.
Little Laborers
Little Laborers
My installation, video, and two-dimensional work explores issues of gender, power, and complicity through the use of humor and kitsch. It highlights trade-offs of power—some willing, others coerced—suggesting a complicity that reveals our conflicted relationship to power. The work revels in a material frivolity fueled by kitsch material choices that belie the depth of the content, while the form plays between two and three dimensions. With a wide range of influences from art to gender politics, I use humor as a strategy with which to explore culture.