Casey Kaplan
Nathan Carter is M A R S and M A R S The Goddess of Sex and Death is Nathan Carter (b. 1970) and Dan Estabrook’s (b. 1969) project. Every Wednesday night, the Brooklyn based artists meet at Carter’s studio where the artist conjures M A R S as she struts into highly staged setups photographed by Estabrook’s keen eye. Since 2020, when M A R S was born, Carter and Estabrook have created a large body of work from which twelve images have been selected and bound in a custom made volume by Three Star Books.
The volume references private photo albums. Like a medieval illuminated book, each page carrying an original pigment print photograph is lit up with hand sprayed stencils realized at Nathan Carter’s studio by the artists with RUST-OLEUM fluorescent pink bright neon color on blue Fedrigoni Italian paper—making each copy unique. The production has been realized at Three Star Books and the pages are bound with pink anodized aluminum Chicago hardware.
M A R S The Goddess of Sex and Death launched at on October 13, 2022 at The Printed Matter New York Art Book Fair.
To read more on Nathan Carter is M A R S and M A R S The Goddess of Sex and Death, visit the Three Stars Books website here.