July 25 – August 29 2026
Opening reception: July 25, 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
We are pleased to announce Carter Potter’s Picture Snatcher, an exhibition that re-stages and critically re-considers a scene in a 2018 episode of the television series Good Trouble in which Potter’s paintings were (with some notable modifications) prominently featured. Picture Snatcher is presented in conjunction with Niko Chodor: State of impermanence. Both shows open on Saturday, July 25, with an artists’ reception from 2:00 - 5:00 pm at as-is.
“In 2018, eight paintings from my studio were rented to serve as set dressing for Good Trouble, the Freeform television series. They appeared in season one, episode twelve, as the contents of a fictional Los Angeles exhibition titled Breaking Through: 8 Artists on the Verge. The title of the episode, “Broken Arted,” announces a familiar tale of thwarted romance.
For more than three decades I have resisted suggestions that these paintings, which are composed of film strips, whether interwoven or simply stretched and stapled across the stretcher bars, could be improved by backlighting. Collectors, curators, gallerists, and well-meaning viewers have regularly proposed it. I have always said no.
For Good Trouble, however, the luminance of the production’s environment required it. Fluorescent tubes mounted behind six of the eight paintings would allow their contents to be properly registered by the camera. I consented. The episode aired.
The paintings were returned to the studio and have remained there since. This exhibition at as-is. reunites the same eight works as they were intended to be seen, while including an important element from the production.”
— Carter Potter