July 3 - July 29, 2025
Who What Where
Olivia Beens, Haifa Bint-Kadi, Patricia Brentano, Nancy Clark, Sandi Daniel, Barbara Herzfeld, Bernice Sokol Kramer, Joan Mellon, Wendy Moss, Joy Nagy, Quimetta Perle, Nieves Saah, and Susan Sinek
On The Wall
The Kitchen Sink and The Octopus Brain Sue Koch
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 10, 6 - 8pm
Carter Burden Gallery presents two exhibitions: Who What Where features the representational work of thirteen gallery artists in the East and West Galleries and The Kitchen Sink and The Octopus Brain a large-scale work on linen that explores the transition between control to intuitive being by Sue Koch. The reception will be on Thursday, July 10 from 6pm to 8pm. The exhibitions run from July 3 - July 29, 2025, at 548 West 28th Street in New York City. The gallery hours are Tuesday - Friday, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Saturday 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. The gallery will be closed for the Independence Day holiday, July 4th, 2025.
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Who What Where
Who What Where brings together the work of thirteen artists whose diverse practices explore the representational world of people, places, and things. From portraits to landscapes and still life, the exhibition highlights a rich variety of materials and techniques, including oil on canvas, ceramic sculpture, mixed media, collage, pastel, mosaic, textile works, monoprints, and more. Together, these works offer a dynamic and layered reflection on the visible world, interpreted through each artist’s distinct practice.
Artists include Olivia Beens, Haifa Bint-Kadi, Patricia Brentano, Nancy Clark, Sandi Daniel, Barbara Herzfeld, Bernice Sokol Kramer, Joan Mellon, Wendy Moss, Joy Nagy, Quimetta Perle, Nieves Saah, and Susan Sinek.
The Kitchen Sink and The Octopus Brain by Sue Koch is a large-scale linen work in the On the Wall installation space that grapples with the tension between overload and instinct, chaos and clarity. Drawing on the phrase “everything but the kitchen sink,” the piece reflects on our tendency toward accumulation, of objects, ideas, efforts, without discernment. At the same time, it gestures toward release: a surrender to a different kind of intelligence, one inspired by the distributed yet highly responsive brain of the octopus. Geometric forms inspired by the Zen calligraphy of Sengai Gibon, (1750–1837), a Japanese monk of the Rinzai school, lend structure to the composition, evoking a contemplative counterbalance to the unruly impulse to do and include everything. This work explores what it means to move beyond deliberate control, toward a more fluid, intuitive way of engaging with the world.
Artist and graphic designer, Sue Koch was raised in Connecticut where her father was a typographer, which greatly inspired her career. Koch spent over twenty-five years as the Graphic Design Manager at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET). She studied Fine Art at Skidmore College, and earned an M.A. from Columbia University, Teachers College. Her thesis, Design and Play, a Series of Projects provided the impetus for current work. Since leaving the MET in 2014, Koch has been practicing as an independent design consultant providing creative direction, strategy, graphic design, and project management, as well as being a dedicated visual artist.
The Kitchen Sink and The Octopus Brain is on view until July 29, 2025.
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