Carter Burden Gallery presentsIllusive Presence in the East Gallery featuring Greg Brown and Howard Nathenson. The reception will be held May 3, 2018 from 6 - 8 p.m. The exhibition runs from May 3rd through May 24th 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.
In his first exhibition at Carter Burden Gallery, Greg Brown presents large-scale abstract renderings that utilize a subtractive method to create mark making by removing the ground material of faux fur in the exhibition Illusive Presence. The works are formed by shaving geometric, minimal lines and shapes and by adding materials such as acrylic paint and tile adhesive compound to stretched fake fur. Brown introduced faux fur into his painting while he worked as a scenic artist and set painter in Hollywood, California. There he had access to different types of decorative materials, which allowed him to satirize the kitsch in fine art making. Around the same time he was volunteering at the Braille Institute in Los Angeles and became interested in making art that appealed to other senses like touch and even taste. Greg Brown states, “Although my art is not edible, its visual and material aspects might stimulate a viewer in multi-sensory ways.”
In the exhibition Illusive Presence, Howard Nathenson presents a selection of works from the series Cut and Torn, where paper becomes a vehicle for photographs, digitally manipulated multi-layered compositions, drawings, and as individual installations. Specializing in drawing, photography and painting, Nathenson’s imagery ranges from symbolic photographic realism to semi abstract compositions. Nathenson is particularly interested in the process of arranging and composing the cut and torn paper, contrasted and intermingled, the play of the three-dimensional and the two-dimensional. Illusive Presence focuses on texture, and the tactile nature of a range of materials and approaches.
