March 18 - April 14, 2021
One Year Later
The Totem Story: Backstage: Sue Dean
Carter Burden Gallery presents One Year Later in the East and West Galleries, featuring the work of twenty gallery artists; and The Totem Story: Backstage in the public On the Wall space featuring an installation by Sue Dean. The exhibition runs from March 18th through April 14th on our website and Artsy.net.
Exhibition List
One Year Later
One Year Later represents a range of work from twenty gallery artists working in mixed media sculpture, photography, printmaking, needle point, collage, and abstract paintings. The exhibition looks back at the past year to the beginning of the New York City lockdown. Many of the works in the show were created during this time. Artists Include: Karin Bruckner, David Cerulli, Pauline Chernichaw, Stephen Cimini, Earlene Hardie Cox, Ellen Denuto, Judy Glasser, Susan Grucci, Cassandra Jennings Hall, Elisabeth Jacobsen, Adrianne Lobel, Carol Massa, Joan Mellon, Sara Petitt, Robert Petrick, Cari Rosmarin, Jerry Vezzuso and Frances Vye Wilson.
The Totem Story: Backstage: Sue Dean
Sue Dean presents Backstage, an installation that goes behind the scene of an upcoming production of The Totem Story. The space is an excitement of color, texture, and disparate materials; Wood wall racks with costume layers share space with props, sound makers, signage, and backstage ephemera. A small lounge area with mops, snack wrappers, and vintage ladder contributes to the atmosphere of theatrical anticipation, and the privilege of being backstage before the cast arrives.
Artist, Sue Dean has a background in education and is committed to equality and human rights. Her belief in the possibility for a world of respectful diversity is informed by her extensive travels. She has been included in family events at a Native American Pueblo for decades, and solo backpacked in Turkey, Bosnia, Greece, India, Scotland, and England. She also spent four years living in Japan, immersed in design aesthetics, social customs, and encounters with living legends of traditional arts. Sue Dean's mystical and eclectic totem sculptures reflect Eastern, Western, and tribal influences. She has traveled and lived in different lands throughout the world, motivated since childhood to explore outside the boundaries of cultures. She has participated in juried group exhibitions, the Creative Capital Summer Intensive, and Poetry Slams in New York. In a juried competition in 2017 her work was selected by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and Artists Unite to be featured in the New York City’s subway system. She has shown at the Carter Burden Gallery, the Maggie Peyton Gallery, and the Women’s Caucus for Art and A.I.R.’s juried competition. Her Totem Neighbors have been centerpiece for two interfaith exhibits. In 2019, Dean exhibited her first installation at the Carter Burden Gallery. The current show is her third. Dean was awarded a Residency at The Millay Colony for the Arts in 2020.
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