April 16 - May 21, 2020

Visual Rhythms: Jonathan Bauch and Greg Joseph Brown
Black, White, Gray: David Cerulli
On the Wall: River in the Adirondacks: Mary Rieser Heintjes

Carter Burden Gallery presents three new online exclusive exhibitions: Visual Rhythms featuring Jonathan Bauch and Greg Brown; Black, White, Gray featuring David Cerulli, and On the Wall featuring Mary Rieser Heintjes. The exhibition runs from April 16 thru May 21, 2020 on Artsy.net

Video of Visual Rhythms
Video of Black, White, Gray
Video of On the Wall: River in the Adirondacks

Jonathan Bauch

Sculptor Jonathan Bauch presents wall and freestanding steel sculptures that explore the challenges that humanity faces, both internal and external. In Visual Rhythms Bauch’s steel abstractions of buildings are skillfully constructed to question the city planners and the real estate industry as to why it seems that people of lesser means are being pushed to the margins of New York City. He asks the question, “Where is this gentrification leading to?” In taming the steel, the industrial quality of the medium is tempered by the indelible mark of the human hand, resulting in sculptures that seem to defy their material with their lacy and ethereal qualities.

Jonathan Bauch, born 1940, is a New York City native, who began his artistic career as an abstract painter, graduating from Parsons School of Design and later studying at New York University and the School of Visual Arts. Following the need for more interaction and movement in his work, his artistic focus evolved from painting to sculpture in the late 1960s. In addition to exhibiting in both solo and group exhibitions in New York City and New England, Bauch has been the recipient of grants from the Joan Mitchell, and Adolph and Esther Gottlieb foundations, and has taught welding steel sculpture at the Educational Alliance. In February 2014 he curated and exhibited in Omens of Climate Change, at the Westbeth Gallery. Jonathan Bauch continues to create work and reside in New York City.

Greg Joseph Brown

In Visual Rhythms Greg brown presents mixed media pieces from the series Pod Paintings, where he explores spontaneous but minimal line compositions with bulbous shapes defining their ends. Interacting, almost dancing with each other, the paintings are meant to be awkward but expressive. In contrast to hard-edge minimalism, with exacting design, the clumsy artist’s hand evident in these paintings exude a playful personality. However, with specific use of color, shape, and composition they are serious design. Pushing the language of minimal design further, Brown adds torn tissue paper, paint drips, and hybrid cartoony mechanical elements to the organic whole. These works are meant to be animated and joyful.

Greg Brown, born in Reno, Nevada, received a BA with a focus on animation and film editing from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema, earned a BFA from Pasadena Art Center, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Working as a scenic artist and set painter at ABC-TV studios in Hollywood, he painted sets and backdrops for sitcoms and award shows, like the Grammys, American Music Awards, and Muppet Specials. Brown has shown in exhibitions in California and New York, including shows at Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE); Flow Ace Gallery, Santa Monica; and Paula Allen Gallery. His first solo show in New York was at White Columns in 1993. Most recently in 2020 Greg Brown had a solo show That Warm Fuzzy Feeling . . . at The Yard - Flatiron South, as well as curated and exhibited in the Spring Break Art Show.

David Cerulli

In the exhibition Black, White, Gray David Cerulli presents a return to his early non-representational paintings that were inspired by the works of the abstract expressionists, particularly the monochromatic paintings of Franz Kline. Reducing color options to variations of black and white was a way to simplify the painting process; creating bold contrasts that merge into more subtle variations of grays when black blends with the white of the primed canvas. Texture is also an important part of his process, using molding paste to create areas of texture and depth.

Originally from Allentown, Pennsylvania, David Cerulli, b. 1950, received a BFA in painting from Kutztown University in Pennsylvania and an AAS in commercial art from Northampton Community College in Pennsylvania. Cerulli is a true renaissance artist, working in both realistic and abstract painting styles, as well as creating sculptures of both monumental and smaller sizes. His paintings and sculptures possess a deep understanding of structure and space, seamlessly blending architectural and organic elements into a visual harmony. Cerulli has an extensive exhibition history, and his work is held in many public and private collections. He has been commissioned for a number of large sculptural pieces that are on permanent public display. His sculpture commissions include: a large-scale stainless steel and bronze sculpture for the international headquarters of Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.; a 22-foot painted aluminum sculpture for Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; a bronze memorial sculpture in Easton Cemetery in Pennsylvania; two playground sculptures for the City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has also been a finalist in several international sculpture commissions.

Mary Rieser Heintjes

Mary Rieser Heintjes presents a monumental five-foot-tall by twelve-foot-long painting entitled River in the Adirondacks in On the Wall. The encompassing piece is inspired by the artists’ experience of walking along the river near her property in the mountains of Upstate New York. The painting reflects how she marvels at the flow of water in the fast-moving mountain streams and the effects of the powerful wind through the trees. Reacting to the environment has always encompassed all aspects of Rieser Heintjes’ work. Grasping onto sites in nature that stirs an inner desire to weld, paint, fuse glass, draw and photograph fuels her artistic practice.

Mary Rieser Heintjes, b. 1953, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, arrived in Brooklyn, NY in 1975 to attend Pratt Institute to study the Fine Arts where she earned a BFA in 1979 and an MFA 1985. Rieser Heintjes is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans from painting, drawing, digital photography and sculpture, where she works with welding steel structures fused with glass. Rieser Heintjes’ work has been shown in the Brooklyn Museum, Urban Glass Gallery, Brooklyn Public Library Central Gallery, Pratt Institute and Belskie Museum of Art & Science in Closter, New Jersey. Her work is included in many private collections across the United States and internationally. The Pratt Institute Center for Career Development featured her work in the Decoding Digital exhibition and included her as a panelist for an event. On an annual basis, her art tours in the Sketchbook Project via Art House Library Gallery traveling in exhibitions throughout the United States. Her work has been featured in the Art Section of Observer Magazine, the Art News Magazine On Line Resources, BRIC Arts Media, New York Art Review, the Brooklyn Eagle, and Prattfolio. She received the Robert Rauschenberg Change Inc Grant, and Rotary Club Travel Grant.