September 7 – October 4, 2023
Shaping Space - Everything As It Is: Beth Barry, Linda Casbon, and Barbara Lubliner
Looking for Clues: Candy Le Sueur
Woven Journey: Janet Goldner
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 7, 2023, 6 - 8pm
Artist Talk for Shaping Space - Everything As It Is: Thursday, September 14, 6 - 7:30pm
Meet the Artist: Saturday, September 23, 3 - 5pm
Carter Burden Gallery presents three new exhibitions: Shaping Space - Everything As It Is featuring paintings by Beth Barry, ceramic sculptures by Linda Casbon, and monoprints by Barbara Lubliner; Looking for Clues featuring oil paintings and monotypes by Candy Le Sueur; and On the Wall featuring the installation Woven Journey by Janet Goldner. The reception will be on Thursday, September 7 from 6pm to 8pm. Events accompanying the exhibitions include an Artist Talk for Shaping Space - Everything As It Is on Thursday, September 14 from 6pm to 7:30pm and Meet the Artist, including the five exhibiting artists across exhibitions, will be held on Saturday, September 23 from 3pm to 5pm. Masks are encouraged. The exhibitions run from September 7 – October 4, 2023, 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.
Beth Barry
Shaping Space - Everything As It Is features captivating acrylic paintings by Beth Barry; these works unravel the essence of landscapes, capturing the fleeting, transient moments that weave the tapestry of our experiences. Operating at the crossroads of abstraction and landscape, Barry delves into the perception of place. The artist was mesmerized by the rhythmic dance of shapes and the ethereal quality of sunlight when looking out of the window of her first flight in an airplane as teenager. Barry channels these enduring impressions into her latest series, aptly titled "Brainscapes." These process-driven works transcend literal depictions of landscapes, employing layered luminosity, hues, and movement to rouse visceral responses in the viewer. Beth Barry states, “For me, these paintings are places of happiness.”
Beth Barry, born in New Bedford, MA, embodies a unique blend of roles as a process-based landscape artist, curator, and psychotherapist. Her artistic approach goes beyond representation, infusing human emotions into her interpretive landscapes, effectively capturing the 'feeling' inherent in each space she portrays. This profound connection to her subjects stems from her early influences, particularly her father, which ignited a passion for creation during her formative years. Building upon this foundation, Barry pursued formal education in Studio Art at Connecticut College and later delved into Art Therapy studies at Pratt Institute. Transitioning to a full-time painting practice in 2000, she translated her diverse experiences, ranging from worldly travels to encounters with natural disasters, into captivating visual narratives. Barry has exhibited at galleries extensively throughout New York and Massachusetts and has participated in museum shows, including at the Coupelouvous Family Museum, Athens, Greece; and the Masterworks Museum, Bermuda. Most recently, she completed the Artist Equity Curatorial Residency Program 2022.
Linda Casbon
Linda Casbon presents hand built ceramic sculptures that range from free standing to wall mounted in Shaping Space - Everything As It Is. The subtly hued sculptures translate forms into a language of metaphoric associations. Individual objects serve as evocative words or emblematic motifs, while the collective ensemble of sculptures forms an intricately woven narrative, a dance of shapes and forms that engage in their own dialogue. Central to Casbon's artistic vision is the exploration of the interplay between two and three dimensions, inviting viewers to traverse the liminal realm where the tangible meets the ethereal. Confronted by the palpable reality of three-dimensional structures juxtaposed with the illusory breadth of painted images, the observer is compelled to grapple with the convergence of the here-and-now and the boundless intangible. Casbon elaborates, “The shadow of a tree moves and changes, it is ephemeral, but the tree that casts the shadow is physically present and real.”
Linda Casbon was born in El Paso, Texas and pursued her education at the University of Colorado, earning a Bachelor of Environmental Design degree (pre-architecture/ design), during which her fascination with ceramics was ignited through mentorship under Betty Woodman and Anne Currier. These formative years, enriched by her architectural studies, instilled a profound understanding of form and space, as well as the interplay between surface and structure, all of which continue to underpin her artistic practice. Casbon attained her MFA from Kent State University and further honed her artistic practice as a resident artist at the Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts in Maine before eventually making her home in Brooklyn, New York. Presently, she imparts her knowledge as an instructor at Pratt Institute and Hofstra University, deriving immense joy from observing clay anew through her students' perspectives. Casbon has participated in artists residencies across the United States and Canada, including the Kohler Arts in Industry program in Wisconsin, the Bemis Foundation in Nebraska, and the Banff Center, Alberta, and is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.
Barbara Lubliner
Barbara Lubliner's Sea Life Monoprints are a mesmerizing journey into the depths of color and emotion in the exhibition Shaping Space - Everything As It Is. Through meticulous inking, she evokes an aquatic atmosphere that reflects the ever-shifting tides of human emotion. Amidst this chromatic environment, a distinctive whale/guppy glyph glides, a solitary emblem navigating the currents of life. As a multidisciplinary artist, who sculpts with an array of materials, as well as utilizes props in her performance art, Lubliner masterfully employs shape and color, intertwining references and playing with spatial dynamics, crafting monotypes that transcend the surfaces of the paper. These prints capture fleeting moments in an open-ended narrative, inviting viewers to explore their own associations and emotions.
New York artist Barbara Lubliner, also known as Ms. Muscle, moves fluidly from performance art to works on paper to sculpture and installation. She transforms traditional and nontraditional materials into concept-based artwork that is iconic and quirky. Lubliner is most known for upcycling trash and exploring the female experience through sculpture and performance. Playful integration of ideas is at the heart of all her work. Lubliner's solo exhibitions include Gibson Gallery Museum at SUNY Potsdam; Carter Burden Gallery, NYC; Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ; Adler Gallery, Port Washington, NY and Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ. Group exhibitions include Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, NYC; City Reliquary Museum, NYC; Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY; Edison Price Lighting Gallery, NYC; and Ceres Gallery, NYC. Lubliner's outdoor upcycle public art installations have been at The Point Campus for Arts and The Environment, Bronx, NY; the East River State Park, Brooklyn, NY; and the First Presbyterian Church green space, Manhattan, NY. Performance venues include the Brooklyn Museum, the Après Avant Garde Festival, and Art in Odd Places. Lubliner is included in the Brooklyn Museum Feminist Art Base.
Candy Le Sueur
Looking for Clues features an ethereal collection of oil paintings and monotypes by Candy Le Sueur. The boundless expanse of the sky, adorned with luminous, sweeping clouds, has long held an enchanting grip on Le Sueur's artistic exploration. Her abstract and expressive work evoke the sensation of soaring gracefully above both land and water, a delicate equilibrium between the abstract and the familiar, the tangible and the transcendent. She initially approaches the canvas quickly, with spontaneous broad sweeps of oil paint and then slowly, layer by layer, the imagined scenes emerge. As colors and marks are built up, erased, and reimagined, the canvas becomes a testament to the ever-evolving dialogue between her imagination and the medium. In addition to her oil paintings, Le Sueur employs the art of printmaking to express herself; these mixed media pieces are brought to life through an interplay of monoprints, colored pencil, watercolor, and accents of silver leaf.
Candy Le Sueur earned a Fine Art degree from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, where she is originally from, and continued her studies at The National Academy School of Fine Art in New York City. Le Sueur has exhibited with Panepinto Galleries, Art House Productions Gallery, and Novado Gallery in Jersey City, Carol Lee Fine Art in Johannesburg, The Russell Collection in Austin, TX, among many others. She has been included in art fairs including the Affordable Art Fair in New York, and Art Hamptons in Southampton, New York. She currently works in Jersey City.
Janet Goldner
Woven Journey by interdisciplinary artist Janet Goldner, is an immersive installation encapsulating the artist's continued commitment to Mali, combining evocative photographs amassed over years and poignant excerpts from personal journals. Beginning in 1973 with a three-month sojourn in Ghana as part of a study abroad program, Goldner’s journey led her through West Africa, with Mali being the heart of her time there. Facilitated by a prestigious Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship, in 1995, Goldner returned to Mali, where she forged a deep connection with local potters, metalsmiths, and contemporary artists. Since then, several months out of almost every year the artist travels back, where she continues the dialogue with Malian artists about their lives, work, and creative process, nurturing profound friendships, and fostering collaborative artistic connections. Goldner elaborates, “Working transculturally unites people from different cultures, education, histories. The exchange of perspectives and contexts can highlight global similarities and specific cultural differences as contributors think together, contributing beliefs and strategies from their individual experiences. As the work continues over a long period of time, the result can be an identity that is not exclusively linked to a geographic location or ethnicity but to new cultural and conceptual realms.”
Janet Goldner is a New York City based interdisciplinary artist. Born in Washington, DC., Goldner earned her BA from Antioch College and her MA in sculpture from New York University. Janet’s steel sculpture, photography, video, text, installation, and social projects bridge diverse cultures, exploring and celebrating similarities and differences. Goldner's work has been exhibited in over thirty solo exhibitions, and over one hundred-fifty group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally. Highlights from Goldner’s museum exhibitions include Global Africa Project, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY curated by Lowery Sims; Women Facing AIDS, New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York, NY; Multiple Exposures, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY; Visions of Life, Islip Museum, Islip, NY curated by Marcia Yerman, Activist New York, The Museum of the City of New York, NY; Beyond Reading: Books As Art, Suffolk Museum, Suffolk, VA; Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx NY. Permanent collections include the American Embassy in Mali, the city of Segou, Mali and the Islip Museum on Long Island, NY. She has received four Fulbright Specialist grants (Mali, Zimbabwe, Japan, Uganda) and grants from the Ford Foundation and the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Public Diplomacy grant, US Dept of State. Goldner's published articles include a chapter in Contemporary African Fashion, Indiana University Press, an essay in Poetics of Cloth, Grey Art Gallery, NYU.
Woven Journey is on view from September 7 - December 20, 2023.
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