June 4 – July 1, 2020

Inside Outside: Linda Casbon and Francie Lyshak
Folding Light: Sidney Peter Turner
On the Wall: Helen Iranyi

Carter Burden Gallery presents three new online exclusive exhibitions: Inside Outside featuring Linda Casbon and Francie Lyshak; Folding Light featuring Sidney Peter Turner, and On the Wall featuring Helen Iranyi. The exhibition runs from June 4 – July 1, 2020 on our website and Artsy.net

Video of Inside Outside
Video of Folding Light
Video of On the Wall

Linda Casbon

Linda Casbon presents handbuilt ceramic sculptures that range from free standing to wall mounted in her second exhibition with Carter Burden Gallery. The monochromatic and subtly hued sculptures translate forms into a language of metaphoric associations. Hinting at meanings without using literal descriptions the objects are the visual sounds of language. When placed together these words form a sentence, a poem, and a narrative. Casbon states, “My work tends to approach ideas in a non-linear fashion. Pieces play off of each other unconsciously, forming a complete thought when displayed together.

Brooklyn artist Linda Casbon constructs functional clay objects and large-scale ceramic sculpture. She studied pre-architecture and ceramics at the University of Colorado (BENVD) and ceramics at Kent State University (MFA). After graduate school, Linda moved to Maine to be a part of the then newly established Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts, which became her home base for a number of years. She has since participated in a number of artist residencies, including the Bemis Foundation, the Archie Bray Foundation and the Kohler Arts in Industry Program. Awards include a Faculty Research Grant and Presidential Award from Hofstra University and a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists1 Fellowship. Linda is currently teaching at Pratt Institute and Hofstra University and maintains an active studio practice.

Francie Lyshak

Inside Outside features Francie Lyshak’s most recent abstract work of monochromatic oil paintings. In these pieces Lyshak concentrates on the interaction of painted colored surfaces with reflected and refracted light. Applying her material with a palette knife, she allows the canvas a renewed objecthood and a unique presence. Some works feature patterns of repeated words and phrases, some legible, others of which vanish into the physical substance of the work. Other works concentrate on textured of fields of color in deceptively simple compositions. By so doing, Lyshak conjures contemplative moods, atmospheres and fluid meanings that prompt a meditative gaze, a calm, mindful form of looking.

Francie Lyshak, b. 1948, studied art in Paris, Detroit and NYC culminating in a master’s degree from Pratt Institute. Her painting career began in the 1970s as a young feminist in the East Village where she was a part of a community of anti-establishment artists, musicians and writers that included David Wojnarowicz, Peter Hujar, Gary Indiana, Bill Rice, and John Lurie. Francie Lyshak has exhibited in solo exhibitions at venues around New York including, most often, La Mama La Galleria and Carter Burden Gallery. She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions at venues including La Mama La Galleria, Denise Bibro Fine Art, A.I.R. Gallery, RC Fine Arts, Barbara Ann Levy Gallery, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Carter Burden Gallery, and Stephen Harvey Fine Arts, and has shown work with curators and jurors including Alice Neel, Patterson Sims, and Paulina Pobocha. Lyshak is the recipient of awards at competitions and events including the First Annual Prize Competition, Provincetown Arts Association and Museum; Museum of the Hudson Highlands Fourth Annual Competition, Cornwall-on-Hudson, NY; and Annual Faber Birren National Color Award. Her work is represented in the collection of the Bronx Children’s Center, and in private collections in the US and UK.

Sidney Peter Turner

Sidney Peter Turner present hyper-realistic drawings on paper in his first exhibition with Carter Burden Gallery Folded Light. Turner’s process begins with the folding of translucent paper to create constructed collages. Once he reaches the desired composition, he uses both natural and colored lights to bring out the delicate hues and luminosity of the folded paper. He then draws these constructions with Prismacolor pencils onto drawing paper that is then adhered to cradled board. The result is impressively delicate and precise renditions that could easily be mistaken for photographs. Sidney Peter Turner states, “My intention is to re-conceptualize visuals from our superstitions and fables. The drawings re-imagine both ancient and modern mythologies, and old ceremonies and rituals are recreated with new visual interpretations to reorient the viewer.”

Born and raised in Flatbush Brooklyn, New York, Sidney Peter Turner’s was influenced greatly by the artists in his family. He recognizes his Grandmother Sadie, Aunt Edith, and Uncle George Bergen, an artist connected to the Bloomsbury group, as a driving force in his lifelong artistic practice. Turner received both his BFA and MFA from the School of Visual Arts, where he began and developed his preferred medium of colored pencil drawings. He has exhibited in both group and solo shows throughout New York. Turner’s commissions include two murals for the City of New York, one of which was located at Grand Central Station.

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%22The little honey bees could feel the breeze from the beating wings of the approaching giant wasps%22 23 x 34 inches.jpg

%22The owl and the five banded snake all played together in a pink paper cup%22 23 x 33 inches.jpg

%22The small green moth could hear the light call his name%22, 23 x 35 inches.jpg

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The sticky worm king wore his crown tilted to one side, 22 x 33 inches.jpg

Helen Iranyi

Helen Iranyi presents illustrations and the visual process of writing books in On the Wall. Nine panels line the walls to explain the process of producing her four latest books from manuscript to mechanical layout to final printed book. Books include “Royal Threads”, “New York is Theater - Snapshots of a Vanished City”, “No Exit – And No Joking Either”, and “What Birthday Present??? – A Book of Nonsense”. Each panel visually describes the research, images, inspiration, and illustrations from each book.

Helen Iranyi was born in 1937. As a teenager, she attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She received a B.S. in Computer Science at the N.Y. Institute of Technology/SUNY (NY) in 1990. In addition to being a visual artist Helen Iranyi has worked over 55 years as an art director and senior book designer. She has created over 500 covers and interiors. Her illustrations and designs have appeared on or in publications including HarperCollins Publishers, Scholastic Corporation, McGraw-Hill, George Braziller, Inc. and Pfizer Pharmaceuticals. Iranyi is also a published author and you can read more about her publications on Amazon. A reproduction of her painting has been featured on a Time, Inc. catalog, Seven Arts News. Her works are in numerous private and corporate collections. Her artist files are included in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries Collection, Yale University Library collection, the Museum of Modern Art DADABASE, and in the Artist Files at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Archives in New York. Her personal letters are included in Columbia University Library collection.