March 14 - April 10, 2024
Common Threads: Ann Winston Brown, Ann Kronenberg, Sue Dean, Sue Koch,
Adrianne Lobel, Alan Neider, Quimetta Perle, and Laurie Russell
Imagine: NextActArt: Barbara Brier, Rena Diana, Madeline Farr, Maddie Goldman,
Ronnie Grill, Patricia Miller, Stephanie Suskin, and Sheila Wolper
Out of Body: Olivia Beens
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 14, 2024, 6 - 8pm
Carter Burden Gallery presents three new exhibitions: Common Threads, a textiles show, featuring works by Ann Winston Brown, Ann Kronenberg, Sue Dean, Sue Koch, Adrianne Lobel, Alan Neider, Quimetta Perle, and Laurie Russell; Imagine featuring mixed media works by the group Next Act Art; and On the Wall featuring the installation Out of Body by Olivia Beens. The reception will be on Thursday, March 14 from 6pm to 8pm. Masks are encouraged. The exhibition runs from March 14 - April 10, 2024, 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.
Common Threads
In Carter Burden Gallery’s first exhibition exclusively devoted to textile works, Common Threads includes artists Ann Winston Brown, Ann Kronenberg, Sue Dean, Sue Koch, Adrianne Lobel, Alan Neider, Quimetta Perle, and Laurie Russell. From intricate hand-beaded figurative works, totem sculptures, abstract tapestries, to crocheted, embroidered, braided, and knitted wall installations, Common Threads promises a sensory feast. Each artist brings their unique vision and mastery of textiles to the forefront, offering viewers a kaleidoscope of textures, colors, and narratives. This exhibition is a celebration of the fellowship that connects us all – the threads of creativity, culture, and human experience. Through the medium of textiles, these artists have woven together stories, memories, and emotions, inviting viewers to explore the beauty and complexity of the world around us.
Quimetta Perle works with decorative materials to create powerful visual statements about women, who are a multiracial, multi-generational pantheon of spirits, goddesses, and mortal women. She works with patterned silk and cottons, and seed beads adhered to rag paper. Laurie Russell’s current series of work focuses on coarse, earthy burlap as a field for experimenting with line and texture through plain stitching, embroidery, and rug making techniques. Wildly energetic and radiating with color, Alan Neider’s large scale, sculptural paintings are sewn, painted, sprayed, stained, cut, and constructed. Ann Kronenberg’s current series of wall mounted sculptures combine ceramics and fiber, which are informed by her background in biological sciences. Ann Kronenberg has an upcoming large-scale installation at Carter Burden Gallery running from April 18 – July 20, 2024.
Imagine: NextActArt
In collaboration with NextActArt, Carter Burden Gallery presents Imagine, a group exhibition by eight mixed media artists including Barbara Brier, Rena Diana, Madeline Farr, Maddie Goldman, Ronnie Grill, Patricia Miller, Stephanie Suskin, and Sheila Wolper. NextActArt is the brainchild of kindred spirits who have found great meaning and satisfaction in pursuing visual arts as a later-in-life career. The group states about the exhibition, “Artists, using different mediums, create worlds of their own, slices of life as they see and feel it, inviting viewers in to wonder, consider and imagine.”
Out of Body: Olivia Been
In her installation Out of Body, Olivia Beens explores our changing times, bodies, memories, and collected possessions by divulging aspects of the self. This installation resulted from the need to purge unwanted items in her life, and, by chance, rediscovered bygone treasures, and memories. She found the process of revisiting objects that once held interest and value, X-rays, trinkets, and items thought lost, illuminates her personal history. Utilizing these objects Beens incorporates the mark of her hand by soaking, scrubbing, and scratching photographic emulsion away, adding paint to the backlit images, then stringing them together in sequences. The sequences can be read and interpreted as light, shadow, and reflection, revealing otherwise reticent information. She adds, “As an older adult, I value and want to honor what is behind me and what has yet to come.”
Sculptor/educator Olivia Beens, born in 1948 in the Netherlands of Czech and Dutch parents and lived in Portugal until age 7. After receiving a BFA from Pratt Institute in 1977 and an MFA from Hunter College in 1982 she moved to the Lower East Side of Manhattan where she still lives and works. During the 1980’s she exhibited installation and performance work in many alternative art galleries including Franklin Furnace, ABC No Rio, PS 122 and was a member of artists groups such as Colab, PADD, and other political art groups. In 2014 and 2015 she was a (SPARC) Artist In Residence at Sirovich Senior Center and completed a series of ceramic murals that are permanently installed in the grand auditorium. She has taught through many arts organizations, worked for the New York City Department of Education, Brooklyn College and Pratt Institute. Beens has received commissions for public art works through Public Art for Public School and has been awarded a New York State Council on the Arts fellowship as well as residencies to the Mac Dowell colony for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Hambidge Center and received a Fulbright-Hayes fellowship to Turkey, and traveled to India and Portugal with grants.
Out of Body is on view from January 4 - April 10, 2024.
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