Marilyn Church, Lindsay and Claire Boren Exhibition

Carter Burden Gallery

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Carter Burden Gallery presents three new exhibitions: Crime and Passion in the east gallery featuring Marilyn Church, About New York in the west gallery featuring Lindsay, and On the Wall featuring Claire Boren.

In Crime and Passion, Marilyn Church presents eight of her historic courtroom drawings with six of her recent paintings in her first exhibition at Carter Burden Gallery. The exhibition highlights the artist’s recent work while also recognizing her career as a courtroom artist for The New York Times. Her courtroom drawings capture key moments in some of the most sensational criminal trials in New York’s history. These very public drawings, Church says, helped inspire her more personal paintings: “The very real narratives of the defendants’ lives led me to examine more intensely my own narrative and how to portray it in my painting.” Marilyn Church’s recent works focus on the abstraction of the figure. The result is mysterious and ambiguous, an intriguing contrast with the realism of the dramatic courtroom drawings.

Marilyn Church, born 1940 in New York City, is a painter. Church has taught at Pratt Institute and FIT and has been a courtroom artist for The New York Times & television stations. She has a BFA from Pratt Institute and has done MFA work at Indiana University and Pratt Institute. She has also studied at the School of Visual Arts and the Art Students League. Church’s drawings have been collected by both the Smithsonian Institute and the Library of Congress, which has 4,500 of her pieces in their archives. She has shown extensively in New York City and on the East End of Long Island. Some of her solo shows have been at The Julian Beck Gallery in Bridgehampton, NY, and The Bernaducci Meisel and the Roger Smith Gallery in NYC. Noteworthy group exhibits include: Uprise Gallery, The Brucennial and Peter Marcelle Gallery. Guild Hall Museum awarded her Best Mixed Media Artist in 2008. She has received a NY Press Art Award and an Emmy for her courtroom work. The Art of Justice, a book of her art, was published by Quirk Books in 2006.

Lindsay

In About New York, Lindsay presents recent paintings and drawings for her second exhibition at Carter Burden Gallery. The artist’s style is best described as folk expressionist stemming from abstract expressionism. Lindsay’s paintings are based on her sketches of daily life in New York. Throughout the day, the artist draws the people of New York from life and from her memory in her pocket sketchbook. Upon returning to her studio, she redraws the sketch onto a larger 22” x 30” piece of paper. Later, she selects specific scenes to paint. In the paintings, color and form transform the imagery. Through this body of work, the artist shares her unique take on the colors, shapes, and people that are New York.

Lindsay, b. 1937, earned her BA from Carnegie Mellon University and her master’s degree from Maryland Institute College of Art where she studied with Grace Hartigan. Lindsay has exhibited her work extensively for over fifty years. She continues to actively show in New York. She founded and has worked as the director of a cooperative and taught at the school of Art & Design in Philadelphia. Lindsay lives in New York City.

Claire Boren

Claire Boren’s On the Wall installation consists of a large mixed media work titled Possibilities of an Endless Journey. The installation represents the artist’s visual exploration of aging and time. Through this work, the artist examines that despite the physical limitations that come with growing older, the mind is continuing to grow intellectually, creatively, and emotionally. Boren’s work is deeply connected to the past, and her art relates to her childhood trauma. The artist focuses on the emotion of her reaction and works in an explosive and spontaneous manner.

Claire Boren, b. 1938, received her BA from Queens College and her MS from Columbia University. In addition, she studied at The New School and the Arts Student League. Boren has studied with Isaac Sawyer and Richard Diamond. Boren began working with abstraction in 1995, after many years of creating realistic and figurative work. Making the shift to abstract work in mixed media allowed her to translate her interior world into the exterior one through her art. Boren was surprised at how her art-making process unlocked past experiences and memories of her childhood during the Holocaust. In Poland during World War II, from October 1942 to the spring of 1944, Boren and her mother survived by hiding in houses, attics, a forest, and a hole in the ground under a pig barn for three months. The artist has shown extensively in New York and New Jersey.