Artist Statement and Bio
I build hybrid figures from elements that don’t naturally belong together - mechanical, botanical, bodily, architectural and let them hold a tense balance in a liminal space.
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My practice is where psychological pressure becomes structure: dissociation as misaligned space, hypervigilance as visual density, fragmentation as collapse and re-assembly as resilience.
Surrealism functions here not as escape but as a way of seeing. I am rendering perception as it accelerates, distorts, and stabilizes again.
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Works move between paper, wood panel, and canvas as motifs sharpen and scale shifts. Repetition and intuition develop the forms into a system. Each work complete on its own, the series legible as a larger syntax.
I work in dialogue with the Surrealist lineage ( including Tanguy, Ernst, Calder, Dali, Matta, de Chirico, Miró, Picasso, Sage, Carrington, Tanning, Varo), the work addresses a contemporary condition shaped by vigilance and fracture without forfeiting resilience or transformation.
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Marie-Charlotte Porter is a Dutch-American painter whose work renders psychological states as hybrid constructed forms. She grew up in London, New York and Switzerland and currently works between New York and Palm Beach.
She trained in drawing at the Art Students League of New York and studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her work has been exhibited in London and New York, including her installation, IMAGINE, featured by Time Out Magazine.​
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