“Resolutions”, “C’ Arte!” and “Out of Body”

“Resolutions”, “C’ Arte!” and “Out of Body”

Carter Burden Gallery

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Carter Burden Gallery presents three new exhibitions: Resolutions featuring works by Stephen Cimini, Vija Doks, Sylvia Harnick, Elisabeth Jacobsen, Mitchell Lewis, Susan Lisbin, Carol Massa, Rifka Milder, Syma, Vera Sapozhnikova, Sheila Schwid, and Gail Winbury; C’ Arte! featuring a dynamic installation by EmmEmm Publishing and work by six of their artists, including Alexis Kandra, Patrik Antczak, Sarah Bianco, Amina Akhmadeeva, Rachael Smith, and Emilee Muthu; and On the Wall featuring the installation Out of Body by Olivia Beens.

Highlighting the diverse work of thirteen gallery artists Resolutions represents a range of work from large abstract paintings to mixed media sculpture. The show is a bright, energetic, and joyful beginning to the new year; a reflection of not only the importance of artwork to society, but to the artists who create it, the viewers who bask in it, and the community that supports it. Artists include, Stephen Cimini, Vija Doks, Sylvia Harnick, Elisabeth Jacobsen, Mitchell Lewis, Susan Lisbin, Carol Massa, Rifka Milder, Syma, Vera Sapozhnikova, Sheila Schwid, and Gail Winbury.

Rifka Milder reflects on her abstract oil paintings and her practice as a whole, “The power of art and painting is all encompassing to me. There was never a time in my life that art wasn’t one of the most important aspects.” Elisabeth Jacobsen shares the inspiration behind her free-standing sculptural work, “Growing up in a family that appreciated and engaged in making music, I also reflected on that specific history. The name “Guest Conductor” is dedicated to my brother, who conducted orchestras and bands in upstate NY.”

In collaboration with EmmEmm Publishing, Carter Burden Gallery presents C’ Arte!, a reflection of their published books the work featured is by six artists including Alexis Kandra, Patrik Antczak, Sarah Bianco, Amina Akhmadeeva, Rachael Smith, and Emilee Muthu.

EmmEmm Publishing produces children’s books that reflect true collaborations between parents and children, children and artists, and artists and publishers. Each book has multidimensional art, borne out of many collaborative conversations and joint efforts. These books are best viewed together with the original art. Their hope is that interacting with their publications leads readers to personalize the narrative and experiment with the art, so everyone can be writers, artists, and doers. With such projects, children will grow with the books, books and stories will grow with the children, and families will grow with generations.

In her installation Out of Body, Olivia Beens explores our changing times, bodies, memories, and collected possessions by divulging aspects of the self. This installation resulted from the need to purge unwanted items in her life, and, by chance, rediscovered bygone treasures, and memories. She found the process of revisiting objects that once held interest and value, X-rays, trinkets, and items thought lost, illuminates her personal history. Utilizing these objects Beens incorporates the mark of her hand by soaking, scrubbing, and scratching photographic emulsion away, adding paint to the backlit images, then stringing them together in sequences. The sequences can be read and interpreted as light, shadow, and reflection, revealing otherwise reticent information. She adds, “As an older adult, I value and want to honor what is behind me and what has yet to come.”

Sculptor/educator Olivia Beens, born in 1948 in the Netherlands of Czech and Dutch parents and lived in Portugal until age 7. After receiving a BFA from Pratt Institute in 1977 and an MFA from Hunter College in 1982 she moved to the Lower East Side of Manhattan where she still lives and works. During the 1980’s she exhibited installation and performance work in many alternative art galleries including Franklin Furnace, ABC No Rio, PS 122 and was a member of artists groups such as Colab, PADD, and other political art groups. In 2014 and 2015 she was a (SPARC) Artist In Residence at Sirovich Senior Center and completed a series of ceramic murals that are permanently installed in the grand auditorium. She has taught through many arts organizations, worked for the New York City Department of Education, Brooklyn College and Pratt Institute. Beens has received commissions for public art works through Public Art for Public School and has been awarded a New York State Council on the Arts fellowship as well as residencies to the Mac Dowell colony for the Arts, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Hambidge Center and received a Fulbright-Hayes fellowship to Turkey, and traveled to India and Portugal with grants.

Out of Body is on view from January 4 - April 10, 2024.

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