Courtney Puckett transforms discarded materials into complex assemblages that create a distinctive visual and conceptual impact, using materials like found furniture, household objects, and reclaimed textiles to create sculptures that defy easy categorization. Puckett’s choice of materials reflects her interest in reuse, transformation, and an intrinsic desire to connect to a rich, often overlooked lineage of feminine craft and labor. Her style combines the material tactility of modernist sculpture with a deeply personal aesthetic tradition of everyday object-making passed down through generations of women in her family. Much of her work interrogates the historical dismissal of "feminine" materials and modes of making, drawing connections between domesticity, sentimentality, and the environment, but at its core is her unique formal language that distinguishes her practice combining bricolage and craft.

Puckett has used discarded objects and reclaimed fabrics as her sculptural material since the early 2000s creating sculptures that are both tactile and resonant, meticulously fabricated yet organic in their form. The animacy of Puckett’s work, particularly her "Characters" series, functions as metaphors for surrogate bodies with front-facing personas such as The Gardener, The Caretaker, and The Griever, among others. By naming the sculptures as they manifest based on found objects and textile, Puckett is presenting the materials that life constantly puts in our way, in a vast variety of contexts, one additional time through the deep human reflex to reinvent and ultimately understand our own footprint over time.

A new series of small-scale sculptures take inspiration from her investigation of divination tools and practices, such as the tarot, and the symbols that she records in her sketchbooks. Words generated from this practice play an integral role in the conception of each piece and the formal logistics of their form. The four elements (fire, earth, water, air) and the four directional coordinates (south, north, west, east) provide a framework for exploring the inner self and guide aesthetic decisions for this particular body of three-dimensional work.

Courtney Puckett (b. 1979, lives and works in Hudson Valley, New York). Select solo and group exhibitions include Hesse Flatow, (NY), Geary Contemporary (NY), Megan Mulrooney, (Los Angeles), Ruthann, (NY), Furnace Art on Paper, Falls Village, (CT), Shelter Gallery, (NY), Turley Gallery, (NY), Field Projects, (NY), Coop Gallery, Nashville, (TN), Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland (OR), Museum of Contemporary Art, Arlington (VA), Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz (NY), and NADA x Foreland (NY). Current exhibitions include 'Something From Everything', Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Artist Residencies include Monson Arts (ME), Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VA), Yaddo (NY), Constance Saltonstall Foundation (NY), Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (ME), LMCC’s Workspace Program (NY), Vermont Studio Center (VT) (full fellowship), and a community research grant through River Valley Arts Collective. From 2019-2022 she ran the backyard art space White Rock Center for Sculptural Arts with her artist-musician husband Colin O’Con and their rescue dog Penelope.

Puckett is an Assistant Professor and Visual Arts Program Coordinator at CT State Northwestern and has taught at FIT, Parsons School of Design, and Pratt Institute. She earned a BFA from MICA, MFA from Hunter College, and studied in Aix-en-Provence, France, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, and the University of New Mexico.