Nanette Carter’s Abstract Balancing Act

Nanette Carter’s Abstract Balancing Act

MONTCLAIR, New Jersey — A famous line from Chinua Achebe’s 1958 novel Things Fall Apart is, “If you don’t like my story, write your own.” That sentiment is particularly poignant for artist Nanette Carter, who used the book’s title for one of her earliest works, which she created while attending graduate school at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. The piece is currently on display in her retrospective at the Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey. Wal…