The 2025 LREI Art Auction and Party will be held at Kurimanzutto Gallery in Chelsea, NYC.
All art sales benefit progressive education at The Little Red School House and Elizabeth Irwin High School in New York City.
In an exciting new exhibition Carter Burden Gallery collaborates with Nástupište 1–12 to present an international exhibition featuring five Solvak artists alongside three Carter Burden Gallery artists, entitled Revealed Faces. This unique opportunity to present the work of Slovak women artists who, while celebrated and valued in their homeland, remain largely unknown in New York. The artists present work from the fields of textile art, design, and painting, highlighting distinctive aspects of the Slovak and broader Central European artistic scene, while the Carter Burden Gallery artists present a range of ceramic sculpture. In a reflection of Carter Burden’s mission, Nástupište 1–12 presents older artists in this show who began their professional careers in the 1970s and 1980s, significantly shaping the character of contemporary art in Slovakia. These artists’ creative journeys have matured yet continue to yield innovative and valuable results.
The Multimedia Space for Contemporary Culture Nástupište 1–12, is located in the small Slovak town of Topoľčany, Slovakia. They provide a venue for temporary exhibitions, site-specific works with interdisciplinary overlap, as well as music and theater performances, educational programs, and artist residencies. Revealed Faces is supported using public funding by the Slovak Arts Council, a financial contribution from the LITA Fund Slovakia and the Slovak Consulate in New York. The exhibition is curated by Zuzana Novotová Godálová and Peter Kršák . Accompanying the exhibition is a workshop Hat-Making on Saturday, February 8 from 2:00pm – 4:30pm. Led by three of Slovakia’s most renowned designers, Júlia Sabová, Silvia Fedorová, and Júlia Kunovská. Using pre-made hat templates, participants will craft their own stunning, wearable piece of art. This workshop is a rare chance to learn directly from Slovakia’s finest creative minds in embroidery, textile, and design.
Slovak artists include Eva Cisáriková-Mináriková, Sylvia Fedrová, Julia Kunovská, Julia Sabová, and Veronika Rónaiová, with Carter Burden Gallery artists Olivia Beens, Jennifer Simon, and Christopher Skura.
https://www.carterburdengallery.org/upcoming-exhibition
September 5 – October 2, 2024
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 5: 6pm – 8pm
East Gallery: Pat Brentano, John Wittenberg, Christopher Skura
West Gallery: Karin Bruckner & Carol Massa
On the Wall: Ellen Wallenstein
548 West 28th Street, #534, New York, NY 10001
Tuesday - Friday: 11am - 5pm; Saturday: 11am - 6pm
Emphasizing improvisation and freehand drawing for phenomenological effect, Christopher Skura captures the speed of living in Lower Manhattan. His new body of work took root during the 2020 pandemic.
Christopher is a visual artist living in Manhattan but grew up on the West Coast of Florida. He received his A.A. in liberal arts from New York University and a B.F.A. in painting and a certificate in sculpture from the Ringling College of Art and Design. He studied ceramic sculpture with Peter Gourfain at Greenwich House Pottery, drawing with Mark Barnett, Nicki Orbach and Leonid Gervits at The Art Students League of New York, stained-glass design and construction on at The Peters Valley School of Craft, painting and ceramics at The Florida Gulf Coast Art Center and philosophy with Paul Edwards at The New School University. Skura’s work has been shown throughout the U.S., including multiple museums and galleries in New York City and Florida, most recently at The Carter Burden Gallery in Chelsea, NYC. In 2011, Skura and clay artist Julie Knight, built JAKPOT Ceramic Studios in the Catskill Mountains outside of Woodstock, NY.
Artist's Statement: “My most recent artwork is influenced by the street art that blanketed my New York City neighborhood during lockdown. These new works reference psychology, structural systems, emergence theory and the human body. Each work imagined is a psychological “sculpture-portrait” of personalities that I encounter. Some of these forms are plant-like but others suggest the machinery of a man-made environment. This duality reflects my visual experiences growing up in the lush Florida landscape and my current life living and working in New York City.”
Pollock-Krasner House presents a lecture on the show “Scribbles” currently at Carter Burden Gallery in NYC with Lois Bender and Amy Cheng.
Curated by Lois Bender and Amy Cheng.
“Go Figure” at The Jane St. Art Center, Saugerties, NY. Curated by Jennifer Hicks
Manhattan artist and art conservator Christopher Skura will be exhibiting 30 works in a solo show of painting, sculpture, drawing and ceramics at the Dunedin Fine Art Center, curated by Catherine Bergmann and Nathan Beard.
Skura, who is originally from the Tampa Bay Area, is a graduate of Largo High School, The Ringling College of Art and Design and New York University. He is a former staff member at The Ringling Museum of Art, The Guggenheim Museum and The Grey Art Museum/ NYU. This will be his first exhibition in the Tampa Bay area since moving to New York in 1995.
“The “Beginner’s Mind” is characterized by an attitude of openness and eagerness, in which a lack of preconceptions allows a person to see everything as though it is for the first time.” - This exhibition will highlight an intuitive, direct style of art making that Skura worked to develop during Covid lockdown in his Woodstock, NY studio, which puts emphasis on improvisation, daily sketchbook drawing and the subconscious flow-state.
His recent work is influenced by jazz and street-art and references the human body, psychology, structural systems, sculpture and emergence theory. Some of his forms are organic and plant-like but others suggest the machinery of a man-made environment. This duality reflects Skura’s visual experiences growing up in the lush Florida landscape and his current life living and working in Manhattan.
For more information contact The Dunedin Fine Arts Center: 727-298-3322
