Richardson-Deppe, Charlotte

Biography

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. She is currently the Barstow Artist-in-Residence at Central Michigan University. From 2023-25 she taught drawing, sculpture, and photography as a Lecturer in the Department of Art at the University of Maryland, College Park. During this time, she completed residencies at Montgomery College, VisArts, Stamp Gallery, and the Torpedo Factory Arts Center. She has shown work at the Hirshhorn Museum, the Peale Museum, 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.

"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."
- Charlotte Richardson-Deppe