February 16 - March 15, 2023
A Book By Its Cover
Nancy Clark, Liz Curtin, Sandi Daniel, Irmari Nacht, Hilda O’Connell, Dolores Poacelli, and Ellen Wallenstein
Friends and Family
Beth Barry, Karin Bruckner, David Cerulli, Stephen Cimini, Elisabeth Jacobsen, Carol Massa, Sumayyah Samaha, Vera Sapozhnikova, and Marlena Vaccaro
On the Wall: Mitchell Lewis
Opening Reception: February 16, 2023, 6 - 8pm
Carter Burden Gallery presents three exhibitions: A Book By Its Cover in the East Gallery featuring artist books by Nancy Clark, Liz Curtin, Sandi Daniel, Irmari Nacht, Dolores Poacelli, and Ellen Wallenstein, as wells as paintings by Hilda O’Connell; Friends and Family in the West Gallery featuring an array of work by Beth Barry, Karin Bruckner, David Cerulli, Stephen Cimini, Elisabeth Jacobsen, Carol Massa, Sumayyah Samaha, Vera Sapozhnikova, and Marlena Vaccaro; and On the Wall featuring the installation The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing but The Truth by Mitchell Lewis. The exhibitions run from February 16 – March 15, 2023, at 548 West 28th Street in New York City. The reception will be on Thursday, February 16 from 6 - 8pm; masks are mandatory. The gallery hours are Tuesday - Friday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Exhibition List
A Book By Its Cover
A Book By Its Cover features artist books created by Nancy Clark, Liz Curtin, Sandi Daniel, Irmari Nacht, Dolores Poacelli, and Ellen Wallenstein, as wells as paintings by Hilda O’Connell. Each of the seven artists employ the materials, form, and context of their work to fit their personal vision. Some of the works are sculptural representations of books, some are a manipulation of published and printed materials, while others are interactive and meant to be ‘read.’
Sandi Daniel and Ellen Wallenstein created differing works while both using the cyanotype process, resulting in works with the distinctive monochromatic blue. Daniel presents pieces with elegantly folded paper both mounted to the wall and free standing, which depict imagery of leaves, flowers, butterflies, and other natural elements. While Wallenstein’s books are a kind of visual diary of her personal journey over the last year, created using cloth cyanotypes that depict a constellation of the artists’ self-described inner workings.
Utilizing books that may otherwise have been discarded, Irmari Nacht transforms them by painting, distressing, and cutting into slivers which curl and undulate, returning them to the tree-like shape from which the paper was made. These recycled books retain their past but live again in a new sculptural form.
From a disparate range of techniques and materials, including recycled thread, cardboard, wire, and paper, Liz Curtin has crafted her sculptural books to tell stories of hope and love, despair, and loneliness, and ultimately, community and togetherness. Curtin has been making artist books for decades and this will be her first-time exhibiting them.
In their first exhibition with Carter Burden Gallery both Nancy Clark and Dolores Poacelli present vibrant artist books. Nancy Clark invites a play of thoughts on the familiar; it is this very sense of play, in its most dramatic sense, that has directed her work. Dolores Poacelli’s works focus on the relationships formed amongst color, shape texture, space, and especially tension. This also includes the relationship the viewer has with the work, creating a connection between the universal and the personal.
Hilda O’Connell’s canvases illuminate her research and interests in language and alphabets from across the world and time, including the prehistoric and graffiti. Her process is to create an improvisational dialogue within the medium, using the palimpsest technique, a form of overwriting she employs in which traces of marks are superimposed over a cluster of random letters, creating a field of linguistic fragments and calligraphic notations which represent a wordless language.
Friends and Family
Friends and Family features the self-curated work of nine gallery artists including Beth Barry, Karin Bruckner, David Cerulli, Stephen Cimini, Elisabeth Jacobsen, Carol Massa, Sumayyah Samaha, Vera Sapozhnikova, and Marlena Vaccaro. After working together for many years these artists came together to create this exhibition in support of the Carter Burden Gallery’s mission. Represented is an array of mediums including painting, sculpture, mixed media, and works on paper.
Mitchell Lewis
Mitchell Lewis presents two large scale paintings entitled The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing but The Truth, Part I and Part II, in an installation for On the Wall that runs from January 12 to April 19, 2023. These two works are an exploration into Lewis’ current series of ‘Squiggle’ paintings, in which his focus shifts to highlight a sequence of indecipherable hieroglyphs, shaped from brief undulating lines scrawled across the eight-to-ten-foot canvases. In both paintings the linear forms playfully roll, tumble, shift, and spiral across a black background; the largest of the two works painted in stark monochrome and the next piece incorporating energetic color.
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