February 17 – March 16, 2022
Go Figure!
Earlene Hardie Cox, Barbara Herzfeld, Bernice Sokol Kramer, Lindsay, Isaac Paris, Sheila Schwid, Regina Silvers, Susan Sinek, Syma, & Danny Turitz
Lost + (Re)Found: A Group Show by the New York Artists Circle
On the Wall: Sara Petitt
Carter Burden Gallery presents three new exhibitions: Go Figure! featuring figurative works in a range of media by ten artists; Lost+(Re)Found featuring twenty-five select artists from the New York Artists Circle; and On the Wall featuring an installation by photographer Sara Petitt. The exhibitions run from February 17 - March 16, 2022 at 548 West 28th Street in New York City. The reception will be on Thursday, February 17 from 6-8pm; proof of vaccine and masks are required. The gallery hours are Tuesday - Friday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
In adherence with the NYC Safety Mandate Program, Carter Burden Gallery requires proof of vaccination or a recent/within 72 hours negative PCR COVID-19 test result, and masks are mandatory.
Exhibition List
Sara Petitt
Sara Petitt presents a large print depicting a collection of arranged scarves that the artist acquired during her many trips abroad, in her installation Travels Through Time. This installation represents what the artist missed most about her pre-COVID life. Petitt says, “Being a mature artist and having pre-existing conditions, which made me vulnerable to infection, I had to leave the place I love, New York City, for 2 years. It also meant cancelling four trips during that time and suffering the loss of several dear friends to this wretched disease. I was not alone. We all suffered.” On a trip back to New York she began to look at these beautiful scarves. The cacophony of color and pattern reminded her of the temples of Kyoto, the live markets in China, the warmth of the people she met in Vietnam, the icebergs melting in Patagonia and countless other memories. Petitt explains further, “My hope is to engage viewers in the beauty of riotous color and then have them slowly… see the message of loss and redemption I hope this piece represents. What better way to jump start our changed lives than with poetry and beauty.”
Sara Petitt studied Fine Arts with Paul Feely at Bennington College, where she received her BFA. Following graduation she studied photography with Lisette Modell and Joseph Breitenbach. Always the avid learner, she has continued her studies at the International Center for Photography. She worked as a textile designer, and Stylist/Design Director for major textile companies for many years. Petitt has also worked as an educator, teaching and lecturing in design both nationally and internationally, and was most recently a tenured professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Petitt has shown extensively in New York and has work in private collections. In 2014, she became the first artist to guest curate a show at the Carter Burden Gallery.
Go Figure!
Carter Burden Gallery presents Go Figure! a group exhibition featuring the figurative work of ten artists. The pieces consist of installation, painting, drawing, and sculpture. Artists include Earlene Hardie Cox, Barbara Herzfeld, Bernice Kramer, Lindsay, Isaac Paris, Sheila Schwid, Regina Silvers, Susan Sinek, Syma, and Danny Turitz.
Magic Lady, an interactive installation by Syma has had many iterations over the last forty years; Revisited again now, this fortune teller self-portrait, reflecting and originating in the artist’s past, might offer a glimpse into the future. Using the park as her muse, Lindsay, who considers herself a folk expressionist, presents paintings of the people she observes there. She visits the park and draws the people who sit, sleep, eat lunch, discuss, contemplate, and read, then returns to the studio to paint them. In an effort to be more environmentally aware, and having a desire to do something creative and useful with discarded materials, Isaac Paris has combined his love for collecting African masks with creating masks mainly from plastic containers and other recycled materials. Most recently specializing in creating masks that resemble familiar animal forms, and possible extinct ones, Paris presents two pieces entitled Long Ears. In her first exhibition with the gallery, Susan Sinik present two large drawings from her The Leg series. She says, “The essence of my work is creating expression with the use of line and black passages. I work on paper using charcoal, Chinese ink, graphite and acrylic to create beautiful sensitive lines with bold solid passages.”
Lost+(Re)Found
What is Lost? And What is Found? In 2021, The New York Artists Circle presented an online exhibition of 117 selected artists who explored and revealed what is truly important in our lives, as they coped with waves of serial losses and change during this pandemic time. Carter Burden Gallery has invited the New York Artists Circle to put together an in-person gallery version of the online exhibition. The (re)grouping of selected work led to two consecutive shows of 50 works distilled from the original 117; presenting an new opportunity for (re)reflection, (re)entering and (re)viewing up close and personal, aiming for a (re)bound through the (re)found. This important exhibition includes statements from each artist accompanying their work. The show offers the opportunity to (re)visit your own experience and (re)flect on these significant events.
Artists include: Audrey Anastasi, Marianne Barcellona, Fran Beallor, Walter Brown, Kathleen Casey, Pamela Casper, Colleen Deery, Norma Greenwood, Valerie Huhn, Sandra Indig, Diana Jensen, Arthur Kvarnstrom, Yvonne Lamar-Rogers, Donna Levinstone, Christina Maile, Douglas Newton, Ellen Pliskin, Siena Gillann Porta, Amy Regalia, Gale Rothstein, Charles Seplowin, Regina Silvers, Geoffrey Stein, Joanne Steinhardt, and Alice Zinnes.
