February 13 – March 12, 2025

Revealed Faces
A Collaboration with Nástupište 1–12
Olivia Beens, Eva Cisáriková-Mináriková, Sylvia Fedrová, Julia Kunovská, Veronika Rónaiová, Julia Sabová, Jennifer Simon, and Christopher Skura

See Through : Renée Khatami

On The Wall: Herd Mentality: Vija Doks

Opening Reception: Thursday, February 13, 6 - 8pm 

Revealed Faces

In an exciting new exhibition Carter Burden Gallery collaborates with Nástupište 1–12 to present an international exhibition featuring five Solvak artists alongside three Carter Burden Gallery artists, entitled Revealed Faces. This unique opportunity to present the work of Slovak women artists who, while celebrated and valued in their homeland, remain largely unknown in New York. The artists present work from the fields of textile art, design, and painting, highlighting distinctive aspects of the Slovak and broader Central European artistic scene, while the Carter Burden Gallery artists present a range of ceramic sculpture. In a reflection of Carter Burden’s mission, Nástupište 1–12 presents older artists in this show who began their professional careers in the 1970s and 1980s, significantly shaping the character of contemporary art in Slovakia. These artists’ creative journeys have matured yet continue to yield innovative and valuable results.

The Multimedia Space for Contemporary Culture Nástupište 1–12, is located in the small Slovak town of Topoľčany, Slovakia. They provide a venue for temporary exhibitions, site-specific works with interdisciplinary overlap, as well as music and theater performances, educational programs, and artist residencies. Revealed Faces is supported using public funding by the Slovak Arts Council, a financial contribution from the LITA Fund Slovakia and the Slovak Consulate in New York. The exhibition is curated by Zuzana Novotová Godálová and Peter Kršák.

Slovak artists include Eva Cisáriková-Mináriková, Sylvia Fedrová, Julia Kunovská, Julia Sabová, and Veronika Rónaiová, with Carter Burden Gallery artists Olivia Beens, Jennifer Simon, and Christopher Skura.

Accompanying the exhibition is a Hat-Making workshop on Saturday, February 8 from 2:00pm – 4:00pm, RSVP and $25 suggested contribution. Led by three of Slovakia’s most renowned designers, Júlia Sabová, Silvia Fedorová, and Júlia Kunovská. Using pre-made hat templates, participants will craft their own stunning, wearable piece of art. This workshop is a rare chance to learn directly from Slovakia’s finest creative minds in embroidery, textile, and design.

See Through

Carter Burden Gallery presents See Through, a solo exhibition of recent multimedia works by Renee Khatami. Her work utilizes defined shapes, nuanced luminous layers of emerging and recessing transparent color. Texture evolves through the diverse use of combined media including water-based paint, glue, pencil lines, and cut razor drawing on paper sometimes mounted on wood panels. Paper is a primary medium, a reference to her background in book design. Most recently, Khatami has been creating on unprimed canvas. While decisive choices are made in the process, she allows for unexpected outcomes rather than predetermined results, and in this way the work evolves.  The title of this show, See Through, is inspired by the action of viewing the work through these translucent layers. Khatami states, “I relish the double meaning – as we also have the choice to See Through a difficult time in life.”

Herd Mentality

Herd Mentality is an evolving installation project in Carter Burden Gallery’s On the Wall space by Vija Doks. In this project, which lasts for three months, Doks will depict a different group of animals in her unique style. In her first month she explored reindeer. Now in the second month, she depicts penguins. Doks' paintings, usually on a field of black emerging in ghostly and luminous white, create a striking contrast between subject and background. Her works showcase the diversity and beauty of animal life and emphasize their fragile position in our present man-made environment. Doks states, “Through these works, I hope to stir in the viewer a sense of joy and wonder and awaken them to the magic of animals. I am an environmentalist and animal lover and I hope to raise awareness of our interconnectivity through my art.”

Herd Mentality is on view from January 9 – April 15, 2024.