Seeing Through:Sandi Daniel, Ellen Denuto, Etta Ehrlich, and Laurel Marx
Hasidim on the Beach: Judy Mauer
On the Wall: Bloodlines: Ellen Wallenstein
Carter Burden Gallery presents three new photography exhibitions: Seeing Through in the East Gallery featuring Sandi Daniel, Ellen Denuto, Etta Ehrlich, & Laurel Marx, Hasidim on the Beach in the West gallery featuring Judy Mauer, and On the Wall featuring Ellen Wallenstein. The exhibition runs from March 19 thru April 15, 2020 at 548 West 28th Street in New York City.
Watch a video of the exhibition here.
Sandi Daniel
In her first exhibition with Carter Burden Gallery, photographer Sandi Daniel presents abstracted photographs of botanicals in Seeing Through. Combining traditional photography methods with contemporary techniques enables her to record and reinterpret the world around her. She works on an intuitive level without a predetermined image in mind, and considers an image successful when it is transformed beyond the reality of the camera into a personal connection with nature. Daniel states, “Lush gardens, majestic landscapes, and serene seascapes have always been a source of inspiration in my image making.”
Sandi Daniel is a local as well as national award-winning artist, who has exhibited over 75 successful exhibitions throughout the United States as well as Japan. Her work has been exhibited in museums, galleries, and academic universities, including the Hecksher Museum Bienniel and the Steinberg Museum of Art at Hillwood. Daniel is a graduate of the University of Michigan where she received a bachelor of science in Zoology and Hallmark Institute of Photography where she studied commercial photography. In addition to making artwork she has also run children’s art programs and has curated art shows for Vision Gallery in Arizona. Sandi Daniel currently works for the New York Times and splits her time between making art and freelancing.
Ellen Denuto
Ellen Denuto presents photographic installations in the exhibition Seeing Through. Suspended below her photographs are a collection of objects that speak to the image above, adding another dimension to the piece. The juxtaposition between the tangible items and the images transports the work to the present moment, creating a sense intimacy. Denuto’s unique imagery begins with the beauty of available light; Shooting on location is her specialty, using the element of the unknown to guide her creative process. She states, “Ever present, the photographer is witness to the world’s beauty- pain, injustice and triumph creating a visual journal of our time.”
Ellen Denuto, founding member of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers is a regular juror, guest speaker and workshop leader for ASMP, Professional Photographers of America, Professional Woman Photographers, SOHO Photo, and various Colleges and Universities. After earning degrees in Art and Education, Denuto worked with the Agfa, Minolta and Ilford Corporations as a guest speaker and contributing photographer for their product publications and trade shows. The Image Bank founder Larry Freed, selected her personal images for his International Collection, which led to worldwide exposure including FOTO, Darkroom Photography, GRAPHIS, Minolta Mirror and Japanese Playboy magazines. A selection of her commercial clients include Starbucks, Target Stores, Penguin Books, and Apple Computers. Her work can be found in the permanent collections of the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ; The Kodak Galleries, Rochester, NY; Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ; among others.
Etta Ehrlich
Dr. Etta B. Ehrlich presents antique glass bottles enriched with stenciled text in Seeing Through. Ehrlich fills each vessel and object with extraordinary meaning by adding deceptively short-phrases such as, “When I am Here, I Wish I Were Here” and “Habitude is The Mother of Inattention”. As a Psychologist and Meditation Teacher, she presents each phrase as an intention. The bottles are symbolic impressions of the viewer, who imbues each sculpture with their own experience. In her book “Meditation Art” Ehrlich explains, “...these compelling works of art provide tools for reflection, insight and spiritual development. They are an invitation to awareness, asking us if we are truly who we appear to be to ourselves.”
Etta B. Ehrlich, PhD., was born in 1930 in New York City. After studying abroad she received a degree in Psychology from The City College of New York and her doctorate from Yeshiva University. Ehrlich is an outsider artist who specializes in text-based works. She combines a lifelong study of Eastern spirituality with Western psychology, and creates original text-based sculptures on antique bottles, window frames and other artifacts and found objects. She has been practicing Sensory Awareness Meditation for over 40 years. Her work has been shown in galleries and museums including Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York City and Lambert Castle Museum in New Jersey. Her work is also in the permanent collection of the Magnus Museum, Berkley, CA and the archives of Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
Laurel Marx
Passionate about the continual interplay between shadow and light, artist Laurel Marx presents photographic works that capture these moments in Seeing Through. The photographs are punctuated by a subtle line in the foreground which defines a plane between the image and the viewer. The line introduces a deeper level of meaning to the piece. Marx describes, “Light transforms the ordinary, creating magic where - an instant before - there was none. What interests me is this alchemy of the evanescent moment.”
Laurel Marx was born in the Bronx and received a BA from SUNY at Stony Brook, Magna Cum Lauda, an AAS from Parsons School of Design, and an MA (ABD), Hunter College. After living in Mallorca for three and a half years, a time that profoundly nurtured her creative vision and practice, she moved back to New York where she became a graphic designer. Marx returned to her art practice with new emergent work that is expressed solely through her own photographs, and by simplifying the visual material rather than adding to it. Her works can be found in the collections of New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation and Deià Archeological Museum.
Judy Mauer
In her first exhibition with Carter Burden Gallery, Judy Mauer presents photographs from her ongoing series Hasidim on the Beach. A hundred years ago, Mauer’s grandparents emigrated from a shtetl in Eastern Europe; then eighteen years ago, she moved to a beach near Coney Island. This body of work began after Mauer moved to Seagate, Brooklyn where there was a large community of Hasidim. With the beach as her backdrop, she captures the day-to-day experience of her neighbors. Seemingly frozen in time, the people in her photographs appear to be transported from another era into her backyard. She states, “I am photographing them as a testament to all we have lost in the Holocaust, and as a celebration of our community in all its forms.”
Judy Mauer came to photography after years of being a collaborative artist. She has worked in theater, music production, advertising and film. Her photography ranges in subject matter, from abstract to narrative. She has exhibited across the globe including, Miami, London, Malaga, Rio de Janeiro, Berlin, Sydney, and Dubai. She has participated in many notable art fairs including Art Basel and Art on Paper. Though she has been a part of many shows in New York, this will be her first solo-show in Manhattan.
Ellen Wallenstein
In the gallery’s public installation space, On the Wall, artist Ellen Wallenstein presents Bloodlines: Collages from the Family Photo Archive. Representing a fraction of the body of work created during a residency at Carter Burden Network’s Covello/Leonard Senior Center in East Harlem, these large scale works span the walls and comprise photographs from a few of those collages. Photographs are always about the past - as soon as they are taken. When they are put in a box for posterity, taken out to be passed around and commented on, they become reliquary, remains, memory and history. Family photographs are so personal, full of information and hints - about what life was like, for an instant, for our ancestors. Wallenstein created these collages out of a yearning to understand her ancestors and a psychological need to better understand herself through them. She states” Some memories are longer, others fade into the background. Time passes and stands still. I tried to show that in my work.”
Ellen Wallenstein is a photographer, book artist and professor based in New York City. She earned a BA in Art History from SUNY Stony Brook and an MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute, where she is currently an Adjunct Full Professor in the Photo Department. She also teaches book classes at the School of Visual Arts, in both the BFA and MPS Digital Photo Departments. A New York Foundation for the Arts Photography Fellow, her work has been nominated for the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography and the Santa Fe Prize. Her photographs and artist books are in various public and private collections and have been exhibited internationally. Wallenstein was most recently an Artist-in-Residence at the CBN Covello/Leonard Senior Center in East Harlem from September through December 2019, where she created several portfolios of collages and books based on her collection of family photographs.
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