January 9 – February 5, 2020
Reconfigured: Marilyn Church and Basia Goldsmith
Small Disturbances: Andrea Lilienthal
On the Wall: Robert Petrick
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 9th from 6 – 8 PM
Carter Burden Gallery presents three new exhibitions: Reconfigured in the East Gallery featuring Marilyn Church and Basia Goldsmith, Small Disturbances in the West gallery featuring Andrea Lilienthal, and On the Wall featuring Robert Petrick. The reception will be held January 9, 2020 from 6 - 8 p.m. The exhibition runs from January 9 thru February 5, 2020 at 548 West 28th Street in New York City. The gallery hours are Tuesday - Friday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Marilyn Church
Marilyn Church presents large acrylic paintings of abstracted figures in Reconfigured. Although she occasionally strays into what seems like total abstraction, the figure has been a continuous theme throughout her career. The impact of the stories of victims and those charged, first fascinated her as a court room artist. A sense of intense emotion resonates in her works. Now, freed from any prescribed boundaries of subject matter, her work is based on improvisation, dream images and, intuition. Church explains, “In this process of discovery, a narrative eventually emerges however illusive it appears. It is often cloaked in mystery, eroticism, and ambiguity.”
Marilyn Church, born 1940 in New York City, is a painter. Church has taught at Pratt Institute and FIT and has been a courtroom artist for the New York Times and television. She has a BFA from Pratt Institute and has done MFA work at Indiana University and Pratt Institute. She has also studied at Visual Arts and the Art Students League. Church’s drawings have been collected by both the Smithsonian Institute and the Library of Congress, which has 4,500 of her pieces in their archives. She has shown extensively in New York City and on the East End of Long Island. Some of her solo shows include The Julian Beck Gallery in Bridgehampton, NY; The Bernaducci Meisel Gallery 57th Street, NYC; and the Roger Smith Gallery, NYC. Noteworthy group exhibits include: Carter Burden Gallery, Uprise Gallery, The Brucennial, and Peter Marcelle Gallery. Guild Hall Museum awarded her Best Mixed Media Artist in 2008. She has received a NY Press Art Award and a TV Emmy. A book of her work, The Art of Justice was published by Quirk Books in 2006. Most recently Church was interviewed on One Night in Central Park, which aired on ABC’s 2020 in May last year.
Basia Goldsmith
Basia Goldsmith presents energetic, vibrant abstracted paintings in Reconfigured. For some time one of the recurrent subjects of Goldsmith’s paintings has been the cityscape viewed from her apartment. It encompasses Riverside Park, the West Side Highway, the Hudson River and, sometimes, the New Jersey and New York skylines. Her pieces transform with the different colors of the seasons, time of day, and even the scaffolding in front of the window to create a dynamic new story. Goldsmith’s paintings are embedded with photos and articles that are paired with painterly brushwork, creating a sense of dimensionality. Goldsmith states, “When I start to paint, I find myself in a constant struggle between my desire to have a conscious objective and the strong impulses from within, where I find myself painting in a subconscious state.”
Basia Goldsmith was born in Pozan, Poland. As a child, she was sent to an internment camp in North Africa, along with her mother and siblings. She was relocated to Scotland where she grew up on a farm. She attended London’s Central School of Art, and after graduation, she became a textile designer in Paris. She moved to New York in her 20s andhas since devoted her time exclusively to painting. Goldsmith has exhibited extensively across the United States, including at the Polish Consulate in New York. Her selected commissions include The Chrysler Building, Metropolitan Life Insurance, among many others.
Andrea Lilienthal
In her second exhibition with Carter Burden Gallery Andrea Lilienthal presents dresses sewn from newsprint and thread in Small Disturbances. The forms highlight the images printed in the New York Times and call attention to life and nature under stress in many of the places the photographers focus their cameras on. Lilienthal seeks to transform images of sorrow and misery into beauty. She does so with the most transient material we throw away every day and gives it a new life. The dress patterns themselves elicit memories and associations of an earlier time when immigration, deforestation, and climate change were not on the front pages. She states, “The grief depicted here contrasts with the innocence of the form to elicit outrage, empathy, and hope. We look so fleetingly at these images as the newspapers are discarded. Here we can contemplate the photographs and find meaning. The dresses serve as memorials to the lives depicted and to the photographers who captured their stories.”
Andrea Lilienthal is a visual artist who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She has had a one-person yearlong outdoor site-specific installation at the Katonah Museum of Art in Katonah, NY, entitled Six Ladders in 2013-14. In 2015 her outdoor sculptural installation TipTop began its yearlong run at the Helen Day Art Center in Stowe, Vermont. Most recently she has shown at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, a two-person show at Mountain Fold Gallery in New York City, and a group show at Worcester State College. She has curated numerous exhibitions and has been asked to curate shows at the Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn and The Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY. She taught art and art history for ten years at Pace University and Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Robert Petrick
Robert Petrick presents an installation that challenges perception entitled ART/LIFE in On the Wall. Alongside his work in nonobjective painting, Petrick has always been intrigued with words and letters in art and as an intrinsic artform itself. ART/LIFE is his latest effort in the form of “psychopoetic” word and illusion, illustrating words that are not always what they seem.
zRobert Petrick is an American artist born in 1945. He was self-taught, though attended the Tyler School of Art in Pennsylvania on a high school scholarship. In 1983, he moved to New York and has focused primarily on developing a painting vernacular strongly rooted in the New York School of Conceptual Abstraction and avant garde music. For more than 45 years Petrick has been consistently pushing the medium of painting.
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