November 17 - December 16, 2022

Conduits
Mitchell Lewis & Ted Thirlby

Spaces Between
Louise Bourne, Rick Landesberg, Danny Turitz, & Marguerite Walsh

On the Wall: CageYourRage
Karin Bruckner

Opening Reception: November 17, 2022, 6 - 8pm

Holiday Jewelry Pop-Up: December 8 – December 10, 2022
Opening: Thursday, December 8, 6 – 8pm

Carter Burden Gallery presents three new exhibitions: Conduits in the East Gallery featuring mixed media abstract paintings by Mitch Lewis and Ted Thirlby; Spaces Between in the West Gallery featuring representational paintings by Louise Bourne, Rick Landesberg, Danny Turitz, and Marguerite Walsh; and On the Wall featuring an installation by Karin Bruckner. The exhibitions run from November 17 - December 16, 2022, at 548 West 28th Street in New York City. The reception will be on Thursday, November 17 from 6 - 8pm; masks are mandatory. The gallery hours are Tuesday - Friday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.

Exhibition List

Karin Bruckner

In Carter Burden Gallery’s public space On the Wall artist Karin Bruckner presents the interactive installation CageYourRage. Occupying both East and West walls Bruckner creates a synergistic space, engaging the viewer and eliciting their input. In this work the ominous trap of Anger and Rage is confronting the viewer, a miasma of sentiment bubbling up from under all the oppression, repression, compression and suppression brought to a simmer in the past few long, dense and unprecedented years. Taking her cues from the uncannily timely poem ‘The Second Coming’ by William Butler Yeats, Bruckner invites us to consider the things that enrage us and to contemplate ways in which we could turn a necessary and motivating emotion into forward movement. She asks, “Many of the things we currently feel, come from a place of anger - but how do we channel it? How do we turn a potentially destructive force into a constructive one? We can start by trying to formulate it and deposit our thoughts on the wall, with the artwork. Write your anger off and leave it behind. Cage your rage and save your trapped hides.”

Mitch Lewis

In the exhibition Conduits, Mitch Lewis introduces new mixed media paintings. Lewis talks about the origins of his subject matter and the allegorical style, which is steeped in the biblical stories and Old Testament folklore he learned as a youth. Although his paintings approach an intended moral and spiritual milieu, their implications exist only in terms of the language of expression. He distributes paint purposely, while bringing a vigor and expressiveness to each of his canvases. Powerfully intense, the forms, lines, shapes, and colors are unexpected, surprising, sexy, fun and sometimes aggressive. “I look for spiritual insights to provide me with normality and a proper balance in life,” he states, adding that he’s not sure he’ll ever find them. Using vivid color and contrast that accentuates his pieces, the work exhibits an almost hieroglyphic quality, at once inviting and forestalling the viewer to try and decipher its personal message. Lewis’ enjoyment of art and its making is evident in the self-described “fun” quality of his paintings. An interview with Mitch Lewis where you can learn more about his work and process can be found on the Meet the Artist page on the gallery’s website.

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Ted Thirlby

Ted Thirlby presents ethereally embellished works on found plywood in his second exhibition with Carter Burden Gallery, Conduits. Informed by the reclaimed wood, Thirlby strikes a balance between subject and support with one informing the other. Minimalistic additions to the already heavily marked and scarred pieces of plywood honor and elevate the material; to the artist this is a process of rescue, respect, reuse, resurrection, and perhaps redemption. Thirlby explains, “It is not a blank canvas. The changing wood patterns, the cracks and chips and jagged edges are the residue of a previous life and use. They exude impermanence and randomness, and in the process of working with them I feel like I am gently adding some divine intention to that history. I am moved by their inherent beauty and respectful of what is already there.” These works also speak to the relationship between humanity and the natural world and the urgency for us to examine this relationship.

Spaces Between

Spaces Between features the work of Louise Bourne, Rick Landesberg, Danny Turitz, and Marguerite Walsh. The compilation of paintings depicts imagery of people, places, and the spaces in between. From fleeting moments filled with tension and energy to muted scenes, this collection of paintings reflect each artists’ perception and curiosity of the environment around them.

Louise Bourne

The paintings of award-winning artist Louise Bourne have been featured in solo and group exhibitions in cultural centers and galleries, including Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine; Gallery 61 in New York City; Anne Irwin Fine Art in Atlanta; the Greenhut Gallery in Portland, Maine; Alpers Fine Art in Andover, Massachusetts; Smith Killian Fine Art in Charleston, South Carolina; Four Winds Gallery in Bristol, Rhode Island; the Aitken Bicentennial in St. John; New Brunswick, Canada. Suzette McAvoy, the Executive Director and Chief Curator at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art responds to her work, “…Like the paintings of Fairfield Porter, Bourne’s paintings make us care about the most humble and yet most universal of subjects, our everyday lives.”

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Rick Landesberg

In Rick Landesberg’s process of art-making his focus when painting landscapes is on what sensation a place evokes, rather than what a place look like. When studying in London, Landesberg visited Scotland and witnessed its powerful northern landscape; his goal wasn’t simply to capture what that mysterious environment looked like, with the ever-changing skies, the mercurial weather, the sudden shifts of sun and shadow, but was to portray the character and spirit of the place. Landesberg says, “Some of the paintings on the wall began with witnessing a particular place but only as a departure point. The loyalty was always to the painting and the experience of making.”

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Danny Turitz

Danny Turitz presents paintings from his series GATHERINGS where he depicts crowds, processions, parades, and demonstrations where representations of figures are together or spread apart moving laterally across the picture plane. In this work the suggestion of narrative is both tempting and familiar but remains ambiguous as the identity of each person, their actions, and their relationships to one another is left unclear. Light is as much the subject in these paintings as is the tension created by the rhythmic play of color, shape and intervals between figure and ground. The ephemerality of the imagery and the gestural way in which the paint is applied add to the reverie like quality of this series.

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Margaret Walsh

Margaret Walsh presents paintings that explore narrative themes including the individual state of mind and conditions arising from personal relationships that reflect the experiences of her everyday life. Intimate moments filled with palpable emotion and atmosphere, these works depict a first-person perspective of a situation in which the viewer is now placed in the midst of. Through painting, drawing, and photography Walsh investigates themes and imagery drawn from the natural world, ranging from beauty and harmony to chaos and decay.