September 9 - October 6, 2021

Inside Outside: Linda Casbon & Francie Lyshak
Into the Light: Candy Le Sueur
On the Wall: Elisabeth Jacobsen

Carter Burden Gallery presents three new exhibitions: Inside Outside featuring hand built ceramic sculptures by Linda Casbon and recent abstract oil paintings by Francie Lyshak; Into the Light featuring ethereal oil paintings and monotypes by Candy Le Sueur; and On the Wall featuring an installation by Elisabeth Jacobsen. The reception will be on Thursday, September 9 from 3 – 7pm; proof of vaccine and masks are required. The exhibition runs from September 9 – October 6, 2021 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.

In adherence with the NYC Safety Mandate Program, Carter Burden Gallery requires proof of vaccination or a recent/within 72 hours negative PCR COVID-19 test result, and masks are mandatory for all at exhibition receptions. This is in effect as of August 16, 2021, until further notice.

Exhibition List

Linda Casbon

Linda Casbon presents hand built ceramic sculptures that range from free standing to wall mounted in Inside Outside. 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.”

Francie Lyshak

Inside Outside features a selection of Francie Lyshak’s most recent abstract oil paintings from her series Painting with Knives. 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 fields of color in deceptively uncomplicated compositions. By so doing, Lyshak conjures contemplative moods, atmospheres and fluid meanings that prompt a meditative gaze, a calm, mindful form of looking.

Candy Le Sueur

Candy Le Sueur presents ethereal oil paintings and monotypes in Into the Light, her first exhibition at Carter Burden Gallery. Soaring, sweeping, light filled clouds have been an on-going fascination for Le Sueur. Abstracted and expressive, the work evokes a sense of soaring through the sky above land and water. There is a balance between the abstract and the referential in her works, but time or place is never defined. She initially approaches the canvas quicky, with spontaneous broad sweeps of oil paint and then slowly, layer by layer, the imagined scenes emerge. There may be as many as seven layers as she builds paint; removes areas and then paints over it again so that the previous marks and colors reveal themselves. Le Sueur adds, “I also use printmaking to express myself. Mixed Media works on paper or, ‘merged monotypes’ as I like to call them, are printed as monotypes on an etching press and then layered into complex compositions on firmer printmaking paper. Often enhanced with colored pencil, water- color and silver leaf, these convey a delicate impression of a time - honored subject.”

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Elisabeth Jacobsen

Elisabeth Jacobsen presents a large-scale installation of cardboard assemblages in On the Wall. The works featured are a part of her current series where she experiments with the idea of form in space. The cardboard materials can be strong or fragile, they are accessible and familiar, and they give her the freedom to inspect, challenge, and discover. Gravitating towards formal design concepts when transforming these materials into sculpture, Jacobsen considers balance, tension, texture, color and rhythm with these recent pieces. The inner complexity between the planar surfaces is juxtaposed against the banal and common appearance of the material. Jacobsen expands, “My intention was to investigate the modeling potential of cardboard and to shape new life from it. As the cardboard is morphed, it informs me of a direction for it to grow.”