Consolations I: May 13 – June 10
Consolations II: May 27 – June 24
Consolations III: June 10 – July 8
Carter Burden Gallery presents three new online exhibitions, Consolations I, II, & III featuring recent works by gallery artists. The exhibitions run consecutively from May 13 thru July 8, 2020 on our website and on Artsy.net.
In the article For the Love of Art: Alain de Botton on Art as Therapy for Sotheby’s, philosopher and author Alain de Botton wrote, "Art has never been mere entertainment. Alongside religion, it has been humanity’s chief source of consolation. There is no reason it should not continue to function in this way now.”
Consolations includes the very recent work of over seventy Carter Burden Gallery artists. The pieces range from abstract and representational painting, drawing, sculpture, and collage, and were created during or in response to the Coronavirus crisis.
With many artists working out of home studios and some without access to their typical supplies, these exhibitions highlight artists adaptability in the face of adversity. Some artists are using this time to create works in response to the current pause on the city and world, such as painter Gail Winbury in Consolations III. After returning from a month-long trip to the mountains of Mexico, sheltered from the news of the pandemic, Winbury returned to a city in distress. She states, “I ran up the stairs to that studio in a mask and gloves, grabbing as much as was safe in the hour I allotted. My piece Moment to Moment documents shifting moods from fear, to peacefulness, to sorrow. My experience is not at all unique, nor is my need to keep making work.” Her abstract works are full of energy and movement, rich colors, and bold brush strokes that communicate the intensity of the current collective unconscious.
The Exhibitions also highlight artists like Elton Tucker, who are creating work to find peace within their artistic practice. Tucker’s landscape paintings, featured in Consolations II, titled A Quiet Place of Meditation and A Spiritual Place resound a sense of calm in the lush green foliage and rushing water. They offer a space for mindfulness and depict a place where some might like to escape from the endless news cycle and difficult emotions. Similarly, painter Cassandra Jennings-Hall finds meditation through creating her intricately patterned, multi layered paintings featured in Consolations I. Her small works, a collection of a dozen paintings all measuring 8 inches square, are a form of reflection and contemplation for her.
Please join us in celebrating Carter Burden Gallery artists’ resilience and hope through their artworks!
Consolations III
