“Recent Work” Exhibition
Carter Burden Gallery
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Carter Burden Gallery presents three new exhibitions: Recent Work in the east gallery featuring Basia Goldsmith, Kate Missett, and Hanna Seiman, Secret Life of Colors in the west gallery featuring Blossom Verlinsky and On the Wall featuring Cari Rosmarin.
Basia Goldsmith
In Recent Work, Basia Goldsmith presents recent paintings on canvas for her second exhibition at Carter Burden Gallery. Goldsmith begins with printing or transferring images onto the canvas surface. The images are photographs that the artist took of building exteriors such as torn posters and graffiti. Goldsmith then paints on top of imagery with loose, colorful, frenetic brushstrokes. Through the use of specific colors and marks, the artist visually responds to the printed images. In the paintings, there is a visual tension between the lower layer of imagery and the painted surface; there is a collision of new media and traditional painting. Goldsmith embraces digital technology, but then reclaims the surface with her marks.
Basia Goldsmith lives and works in New York. She was born in Poland, and spent her childhood in France and North Africa, settling with her family in a small farm in Scotland. She attended St. Mary’s Boarding School outside of London. At sixteen, she entered the Central School of Art in London, where, in addition to studying fine art, she majored in textile design. She lived in Paris for five years while working at Dessin Opera. She then moved to New York where she worked at Gadfy Studios, and then for fashion designers including: Mary McFadden, Arnold Scassi, and Giorgio St. Angelo. Goldsmith has since returned to her primary interest in painting. She has recently exhibited work at Piermont Fine Arts Gallery in Piermont Landing, New York and at Millbrook School in Millbrook, New York.
Kate Missett
In Recent Work, Kate Missett presents recent ceramic sculptures for her first exhibition at Carter Burden Gallery. The work in the exhibition comes from her ongoing series of canopic jars. The top segments of the sculpture are animals or humans, while the bottom portions are open vessels on which the animal or humans rest. Missett provides the context for how the viewer is meant to interpret the subject through imagery that she hand builds, paints, and transfers onto the lower vessels. The ancient Egyptians used multiple canopic jars to store and preserve specific organs during mummification. The artist worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art while she was in graduate school, which led to her developing a scholarly knowledge of and fascination with ceramic cultures of the past. This interest, as well as extensive travels in Europe, the Caribbean, and India, led to the development of her large canopic jars made with a variety of clays and firing techniques. Missett’s canopic jars explore contemporary aspects of human and animal relationships to nature and the city.
Kate Missett, b. 1951, grew up in south Florida, and attended college in New Orleans where she discovered clay in her senior year of a journalism major. Upon graduation she immediately set up her own studio and has been working in clay ever since. She moved to Brooklyn, New York in 1982 to attend Pratt Institute, where she received her MFA in ceramics. Missett shares her knowledge and love of ceramics as both a curator and as an instructor, giving workshops and lectures, teaching all aspects of studio ceramics as well as ceramic history at Greenwich House Pottery and City University. She also serves as director of the Artworks program of the West Side YMCA.
Hanna Seiman
In Recent Work, Hanna Seiman presents recent abstract paintings for her first exhibition at Carter Burden Gallery. The artist paints by pouring washes of thinned paint onto unstretched and unprimed canvas. Seiman’s resulting stain paintings suspend the flowing and blending of the colors. The halting of movement of the colors becomes the visual focus. Through painting, the artist releases her emotions; her paintings become a conduit for her life experiences. Seiman understands and welcomes viewers to interpret her paintings from their own life experiences.
Hanna Seiman received a BA from Queens College, a MA in history from New York University and has studied with William Scharf, Larry Poons and Charles Hinman at the Art Students League of New York. She has taught both history and art in NYC and Monmouth County, NJ. Her work is held in private and public collections in the U.S. and Europe including the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta, GA, and the Golden Foundation in New Berlin, NY.
Blossom Verlinsky
In Secret Life of Colors, Blossom Verlinsky presents recent paintings for her first exhibition at Carter Burden Gallery. Verlinsky’s paintings are luscious, intricate organic patterns of blues, reds, greens, purples, and gold. While the paintings are non-objective, they have a dream-like sensibility. The natural world and geology inspire Verlinsky’s paintings by using patterns and colors to create tactile recollections of precious stones and matter related to events. The artist begins by painting on unstretched linen. In the midst of painting, Verlinsky folds the linen, and adheres it to a canvas. The undulating surface of the canvas emphasizes the strata of retained and recalled memories and impressions. For the artist, deeply personal myths emerge from her subconscious as she explores her relationship with her inner self.
Blossom Verlinsky, b.1937 in New York City, is an artist who photographs, and draws and paints with watercolors and acrylics. She earned a BS degree in Geology and Art from Brooklyn College and a MFA from Brooklyn College and New York University. Blossom’s paintings have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in New York City and Florida.
Cari Rosmarin
Cari Rosmarin’s large-scale installation, featured in the gallery space On the Wall, will consist of two large horizontal collages depicting animals that are affected by climate change. Using image transfers and vibrant colors, Rosmarin’s collages first seem to be positive celebrations of many different species of life. However, upon closer inspection of seeing certain bugs and animals as black silhouettes, with others painted over, it is clear that the artist is drawing our attention to something deeper. The rough torn edges suggest a hasty violent act of destruction. The artist intends to draw our attention to how global climate change threatens the vitality of all life on earth.
Cari Rosmarin, b. 1954 in Brooklyn, New York, is a painter and printmaker, who works with mixed media and collage. She earned a B.F.A. in Art from SUNY Buffalo, and a MFA from Hunter College in New York. Her paintings and drawings have been featured in solo and group exhibitions in New York, including The One Twenty Eight Gallery, The Drawing Center, Westbeth gallery, White Columns, and The Bronx Museum of the Arts. She has participated in exhibitions throughout the United States including the Albright-Knox gallery in Buffalo, the Provincetown Museum in Provincetown, MA, the Nassau County Museum and the Islip Museum in Long Island, NY, the Virginia Miller Gallery in Coral Gables, FL, the Waterworks Visual Art Center in Salisbury, NC, the Woodstock Art Association in Woodstock, NY, and more.
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Schedule
from June 30, 2016 to July 21, 2016
Opening Reception on 2016-06-30 from 18:00 to 20:00