Carter Burden Gallery
Seeking Light, Finding Hope
- David Cerulli,
- Mary Rieser Heintjes
- David Cerulli,
- Mary Rieser Heintjes
Carter Burden Gallery presents Seeking Light, Finding Hope
featuring paintings by David Cerulli and Sculpture by Mary Reiser Heintjes in the East Gallery. The exhibition runs from April 22 – May 19, 2021 at 548 West 28th Street in New York City.
In the exhibition Black, White, Gray David Cerulli presents a return to his early non-representational paintings that were inspired by the works of the abstract expressionists, particularly the monochromatic paintings of Franz Kline. Reducing color options to variations of black and white was a way to simplify the painting process; creating bold contrasts that merge into more subtle variations of grays when black blends with the white of the primed canvas. Texture is also an important part of his process, using molding paste to create areas of texture and depth.
In Seeking Light, Finding Hope Mary Rieser Heintjes presents abstract, dynamic sculptures that utilize the technique of oxyacetylene welding with steel which is then kiln fused with glass. Her love of glass, color, effects of light, and drawing in space are very strong elements in the work as well incorporating observation of nature. The pieces eloquently combine two disparate elements, the luminosity, liquidity, and fragility of glass with the solidity and strength of steel. Rieser Heintjes explains, “The work that is created is happy and optimistic and whimsical, strong and like no other.”