Barbara Arum, Valentina DuBasky, Robert W. Petrick & Ken Golden Exhibition
Carter Burden Gallery
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Carter Burden Gallery presents three new exhibitions: Journeys in the east gallery featuring Barbara Arum and Valentina DuBasky, Structural Breakdown 3.0 in the west gallery featuring Robert W. Petrick and On the Wall featuring Ken Golden.
Barbara Arum
In Journeys, Barbara Arum presents reliquary sculptures for her first exhibition at Carter Burden Gallery. Arum creates reliquaries to hold the relics she has collected through her life that come from from her journeys around the world: Cameroon, Brazil, Peru, Papua New Guinea, Washington, and New York. Arum’s work is based on her deep respect for all living things and her concerns about the environment. Many have doors that were made by the local artisans of the places she has traveled, and she views this combination as an entwining of their spirits and energy.
Barbara Arum, b. 1937, Des Moines, Iowa, sculptor and furniture maker, works mainly in wood, steel and bronze. She studied wood with Raymond Rocklin, the lost-wax method and bronze casting with Philip Listengard, SUNY, Purchase, and life modeling at Silvermine Art Guild. Solo show highlights include exhibitions at Coffey Gallery (Kingston, NY), Lancaster Museum of Art (Lancaster, PA), Pindar Gallery (New York, NY), and Cassandra Gallery (White Plains, NY). Group show highlights include exhibitions at Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, OH), Grounds for Sculpture (Hamilton, NY), Hudson River Museum Contemporary Gallery (Yonkers, NY), Newark Museum (Newark, NJ) and Hammond Museum (North Salem, NY).
Valentina DuBasky
In Journeys, Valentina DuBasky presents recent paintings for her first exhibition at Carter Burden Gallery. DuBasky’s paintings explore the correspondences between ancient, totemic creatures and the contemporary imagination. In many, a single-image of a horse, stag or bison is pitched on the edge of abstraction and can be read as animal, abstraction, landscape or still life. In others, groups of animals, including horses, gazelles, birds and imaginary creatures, are juxtaposed with petroglyphs and plants that appear and fade within layers of paint, suggesting a natural ecosystem in which all life is interdependent. The paintings are inspired by DuBasky’s recent travels to the Protected Forest in Cambodia, one of the last protected forest areas in Southeast Asia, and by her travels along the Silk Route in China, India and Central Asia, where she has researched Buddhist cave paintings and ancient art to prepare for own modern-day, cave-wall paintings.
Valentina DuBasky is an artist with 35 years of professional exhibition experience nationally and internationally. Her modern-day, cave-wall paintings are grouped within New Image Painting, a painting movement from the 1980’s. Public collections include the Orlando Museum, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Newark Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Pew Charitable Trust Collection, Prudential Collection, IBM Collection and Fuzhou International Center, China. Grants include the Fulbright Specialist Roster, Visiting Artist Grant for the Art in Embassies Program, US Department of State and two Individual Artist Grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation. She is a Fulbright Senior Specialist in art.
Robert W. Petrick
In Structural Breakdown 3.0, Robert W. Petrick presents recent abstract paintings for his third exhibition at Carter Burden Gallery. Petrick’s art is an effort to push the boundaries of quiet and chaos, the simple and the complex. By inventing and exploring new painting applications and techniques and working within a non-objective painting structure, his current work attempts to explore the concepts of expansion and compression.
Robert W. Petrick is an American artist born in 1945 and is mostly self-taught. In 1983, he moved to New York and has focused primarily on developing a painting vernacular strongly rooted in the New York School of Conceptual Abstraction and avant-garde music. Solo show highlights include exhibitions at Red Bar and Tompkins Square Park Library. Group show highlights include exhibitions at Nolo Contendere, the Emerging Collector, the One Stop Gallery, the Nico Smith Gallery, with the artist collective Colab’s, the 2006 DUMBO Annual Exhibit in Brooklyn, “Eye Tricks” an exhibit of optical illusions at the Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University in 2007, in New Jersey, and Gallery 307. Other accomplishments include teaching lettering graphic design at Parsons School of Design.
Ken Golden
Ken Golden’s large-scale installation, featured in the gallery space On the Wall, will consist of a large horizontal black and white photographic print of layered and partially masked images exploring masculinity and sexuality. The politics of representation are of the utmost importance to the artist and with the growth of technologies, the computer is an important tool. As a gay man, the artist is engaged in creating work that addresses today’s sensibility. Identity politics continues to define the diversity of our population. Golden finds this diversity a point of celebration and one of inclusion as it adds to the articulation of who we are. He takes on the challenge to explore how we can have these identities and co-exist. The work becomes a meditation on his identity as part of a larger context. In his work, there is a density of elements that lends itself to a multiplicity of meanings, challenging and playing with how we see, and mixing reading with seeing.
Ken Golden has exhibited internationally and locally for the past 40 years. He has taught at New York University, The University of Pennsylvania, New York Institute of Technology, Rhode Island School of Design, The International Center of Photography, and The City College of New York. Solo exhibitions include: Westbeth Gallery (New York), Vessel (New York), and Familia y Amigos (Barcelona, Spain). Group exhibitions include: Detroit Museum of New Art, Westbeth Gallery, Pulse Art, Leo Castelli – Bailey House Benefit & Auction, APEX Art, and University of Illinois Gallery 400. His work is in the Collection of Paris’s Bibliotheque Nationale.
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Schedule
from May 19, 2016 to June 09, 2016
Opening Reception on 2016-05-19 from 18:00 to 20:00