Sue Dean, in her first exhibition at Carter Burden Gallery entitled Spirited, displays mystical and eclectic totem sculptures that reflect Eastern, Western, and tribal influences. She has traveled and lived in different lands throughout the world, motivated since childhood to explore outside the boundaries of cultures. The anthropomorphic totems are formed from various textiles, fragments saved from travels, and found objects. Sue Dean states, “Different sizes and shapes of totems evolve as if from faraway planets, yet they're like people on earth, distinctive in expression and energy.”
In her first exhibition with Carter Burden Gallery, Barbara Laube presents ethereal impasto oil paintings on canvas with abstract compositions that conjure notions of spirituality, shamanism, and transformation in the exhibition Spirited. With a focus on the materiality of paint, the thick and highly textured surface of the work relies on the viewer’s subconscious to interpret. The exhibition features Laube’s most recent work and takes on an otherworldly quality by marrying Laube’s paintings with titles such as Omega and Portal, with totem sculptures by Sue Dean. Laube describes, “In the end the act of painting and paint itself is first and foremost and has always been my way of making sense of my life, who I am, what I love and what I believe in.”
