Reception: Thursday, July 9, 6 - 8pm
Closed: Saturday, July 4

Carter Burden Gallery presents two new exhibitions: Now featuring work by fifteen gallery artists in the East and West Galleries and Joysticks a large-scale installation celebrating spirit and community by Elisabeth Jacobsen. The reception will be on Thursday, July 9 from 6pm to 8pm. The exhibitions run from July 2 - 28, 2026, 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.

Carter Burden Gallery will be closed on Saturday, July 4th, 2026.

Now, featuring fifteen gallery artists, affirms the enduring vitality of the creative spirit and Carter Burden Gallery’s mission to champion the work of older professional artists. Featuring the most recent works completed by each artist, or selections from their latest bodies of work, the exhibition highlights a wide range of approaches and materials, including ceramic sculpture, photography, printmaking, painting, mixed media, collage, drawing, and installation. Together, these works demonstrate that artistic relevance is not bound by age or medium. Rather, Now celebrates artists who continue to experiment and contribute meaningfully to contemporary culture, proving that creativity remains an active and essential force throughout a lifetime.

Artists include Ann Winston Brown, Stephen Cimini, Sandi Daniel, Ellen Denuto, Barbara Herzfeld, Helen Iranyi, Ann Kronenberg, Yvonne Lamar-Rogers, Susan Lisbin, Barbara Lubliner, Kate Missett, Joy Nagy, Laurie Russell, Sheila Schwid, and Julie Tesser.

In Joysticks, Elisabeth Jacobsen presents a large-scale installation that celebrates spirit and the power of community. Conceived in the summer of 2024 during Kamala Harris's presidential campaign and inspired by the candidate's frequent invocation of joy, the work embraces visual exuberance through a vivid palette and dynamic composition. The installation reflects Jacobsen's interest in creating work that responds to the cultural moment while fostering connection through shared creativity. Working with her longstanding practice of incorporating found and discarded materials, Jacobsen discovered bamboo, a material she viewed as particularly meaningful. Known for its durability and flexibility, bamboo serves as both a natural element and a symbol of resilience and growth. Brightly colored forms are further animated as the artist plays with surface details, which provide a visual richness.

Throughout the creation of Joysticks, Jacobsen considered the importance of her immediate community and the collaborative relationships that have informed many of her past projects. Elaborating on this, Jacobsen said, “…so here too I invited my sister Andrea Jacobsen, my niece Cortney Jacobsen, and my close friend Carol Massa to add their marks to a stick. I deeply valued our collective attention to create and connect us to the notion of joy.”

Elisabeth Jacobsen (b. 1949) is a New York-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice draws upon sculpture, photography, design, and assemblage to transform found and discarded materials into deeply personal narratives. She received her BFA from the State University of New York at Purchase and her MFA from the University at Albany and furthered her studies at the Instituto Allende in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and the Accademia d’Arte Bianca Cappello in Florence, Italy. Jacobsen taught at the Fashion Institute of Technology for more than three decades and lectured internationally, including at the Zhejiang International Institute of Fashion Technology in Hangzhou, China. She has also worked extensively as a freelance designer, illustrator, and author.