Carter Burden Gallery presents three exhibitions: Material Matters in the East Gallery featuring Alyce Gottesman, Gail Meyers, and Alan Neider; Inner Landscapes in the West Gallery featuring Beth Barry and Karin Bruckner; and On the Wall featuring the installation Tree Line by Joy Nagy.  The reception will be on Thursday, April 23 from 6pm to 8pm. The exhibitions run from April 23 - May 19, 2026, at 548 West 28th Street in New York City. Alyce Gottesman will be having a meet the artist on Saturday, April 25 and Saturday, May 15 from 3pm - 5pm.The gallery hours are Tuesday - Friday, 11 am - 5 pm, Saturday 11 am - 6 pm.

Alyce Gottesman, Gail Meyers, and Alan Neider explore textiles, geometry, and color in Material Matters. Across painting and sculpture, each artist incorporates fabric and mixed media to build complex, tactile surfaces. Neider’s boldly constructed canvases juxtapose cut geometric voids with expressive, graffiti-inspired forms, while Gottesman’s atmospheric abstractions weave together landscape, memory, vivid color, and intuitive mark-making. Meyers’s sculptural works extend these themes into three dimensions, assembling spherical forms that balance structure and openness. Together, the works create a vibrant and boisterous dialogue between order and improvisation, density and space, where line and shape become both functional and expressive tools.

Inner Landscapes brings together the work of Beth Barry and Karin Bruckner in a dialogue that explores the emotional and perceptual dimensions of landscape through distinct yet resonant approaches. Installed across the West Gallery, Barry’s luminous acrylic paintings animate the West Wall and extend onto the shared South Wall, while Bruckner’s richly layered monoprints occupy the East Wall and join in conversation on the South Wall. Barry’s compositions, inspired by the Massachusetts coastline and often viewed from a bird’s-eye perspective, distill memories of light, color, and movement into expressions of joy—what she describes as “places of happiness.” In contrast, Bruckner’s process-driven printmaking practice constructs complex, deeply embedded surfaces through a synthesis of techniques, reflecting her architectural background and an intuitive responsiveness to material and method. Together, their works traverse the terrain between observation and abstraction, structure and spontaneity, inviting viewers into immersive inner landscapes shaped as much by feeling as by form.

Tree Line, an installation by Joy Nagy in the space On the Wall, is a visual study of trees rendered in graphite on paper. Measuring six feet in height, each work stands at human scale, transforming the wall into a forest of upright forms that evoke a sense of standing amongst a crowd. Each portrait conveys the tenacity, strength, and quiet power of this enduring species while drawing subtle parallels to the human form. Trunks, branches, scars, and textures echo anatomical features, like spines, limbs, and skin, suggesting a relationship between humanity and the natural world. Nagy’s practice is rooted in personal history, lived experience, and an ongoing engagement with nature. Family narratives, memory, and observation shape her approach, allowing each endeavor to emerge from both emotional and material inquiry. Working across drawing, painting, ceramics, installation, audio, and assemblage, Nagy selects her media based on what best serves each project. In Tree Line, graphite becomes both tool and metaphor, capable of expressing delicacy and density, fragility and permanence.