CHARLOTTE RICHARDSON-DEPPE
Bio
Charlotte Richardson-Deppe is a queer feminist artist working between performance and soft sculpture. She received her MFA in Studio Art from the University of Maryland, College Park, where she teaches drawing, sculpture, and photography as a Lecturer in the Department of Art.
In 2023-24, she was the Bresler Resident Artist at VisArts, the Collaborative Artist-in-Residence at Montgomery College, and the inaugural resident artist at the Stamp Gallery. She is currently completing the Post-Graduate Artist Residency at the Torpedo Factory Arts Center. She has shown work at MOCA Taipei, Auckland Pride Festival, NextNow Fest, Culture Lab LIC, StableArts, Rhizome DC, Source Theatre, VisArts, Phaze 2 Gallery, NE Sculpture, Maryland Art Place, and more.
Artist Statement
Working through soft sculpture and performance, I mingle bodies and bodily sculptures.
Growing up, I performed aerial arts in a circus, where a web of interdependence keeps you off the ground.
In my own body now, I feel the residual stretch, tension, and ache the circus left in me—remnants of bodies defying gravity by holding one another up.
I exaggerate bodies and replicate limbs, making visible the ways humans connect and relate to one another.