Carter Burden Gallery Opens Exhibitions by Flo Fox, Len Speier, Bill Richards, and Marilyn Sontag

The nonprofit Carter Burden Gallery opens new exhibitions by older professional artists: Flo Fox & Len Speier, Disco Ball; Bill Richards, Streamed Space Paintings; Marilyn Sontag, On the Wall. Located in Chelsea, the Carter Burden Gallery is a program of the Carter Burden Center for the Aging, designed to give a voice to New York City's re-emerging older artists through the exhibition and cultivation of their work.

On view:June 26 - July 24, 2014

Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday 11am-5pm, Saturday 11am-6pm

OPENING RECEPTION: June 26, 2014 / 6-8pm

View the exhibitions during the Chelsea Art Walk on July 24th from 5-8pm

LOCATION: Carter Burden Gallery, 548 West 28th Street, #534, New York, NY 10001

Disco Ball will feature photographs of Flo Fox and Len Speier capturing the wild, frenetic, and sometimes gritty, days of disco. Through their images, viewers will be transported to a time of Warhol, nightclubs and unfettered revelry. Flo Fox and Len Speier, Disco Ball, made possible in part with support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. A reportage, "street photographer" since 1972, Flo Fox has shot over 120,000 images. For Fox, photography is her existence and covers all aspects of being a single woman and artist in New York City, while having the freedom and good fortune for extensive travel. Though visually impaired and physically challenged from multiple sclerosis, confining her to a wheelchair, she never goes anywhere without her camera. Totally disabled from the neck down since 1999, she directs friends, attendants, or people in the street to take pictures for her.

Len Speier was taken with photography from the time his uncle gave him a primitive film developing kit on his 13th Birthday, and he has been engaged in photography for over 40 years. For Speier, photography is the art of exclusion, the power to create through the camera what is desired to be revealed. It is the serendipitous confluence of the eye, brain, sensitivity and the action of the finger on the shutter release. Speier aims to capture humanism and social reality in his work.

Bill Richards' Streamed Space Paintings frame and interlace space with streams and flowing masses of pure color, giving the impression of simultaneous occurrence. His process results in misdirected colors while maintaining the color autonomy of convergent wet paint. Dramatic and majestic, the "gestures" are grand and bold, their interaction seemingly confused yet oddly coherent-they seem to converge and diverge simultaneously, forming a kind of fluid Gordian knot that seems to unravel as it is tied-and their colors are fresh and luminous.

For her On the Wall installation, Marilyn Sontag will explore aesthetic contrasts and complements. Her improvised environment will utilize planned and unplanned elements, including cut and torn shapes of paper spiraling and curling against panels of color. The resulting environment will capture the illusion of movement and ethereal lightness.

The Carter Burden Center is a non-profit agency established in 1971 by the late Carter Burden when he was a New York City Councilman. The mission is to promote the well-being of older adults through a continuum of services, advocacy and volunteer programs oriented to individual, family and community needs. For more information about the Carter Burden Center and its programs, visit www.carterburdencenter.org.