Get Home Safe

We are thrilled to present Jermaine “jET” Carter’s solo exhibition, Get Home Safe. In his latest body of work, the interdisciplinary artist and DC native draws upon the aesthetics of local domestic architecture and spaces of transition to conjure a visual language of remembrance.

The exhibition features new sculptural and two-dimensional mixed-media works that function as transient, lived-in sites where accumulation and erosion coexist. Photo transfers and wheatpastings—including images of jET’s previous works, database images of DC locations and landmarks, camera roll screenshots, and other digital ephemera—imbue the works with nostalgic fragments of personal and collective memory. Painting and drawing processes emerge at the foreground, animating each moment while revealing synchronicities across time and space. 

Through recursive techniques and imaginative storytelling, jET renders continuity and rupture as a rhythmic loop of remembering and forgetting. Like the everyday benediction passed from mother to child, elder to kin, Get Home Safe embodies the enduring wish that, amid the unknown and ever changing terrain, one always finds one’s way home.

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Jermaine “jET” Carter (b. 1998, Washington, DC) is an interdisciplinary artist from Southeast Washington, DC, whose work explores memory, cultural preservation, and speculative world-building through painting, sculpture, and digital media.  jET earned his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2020.

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