Worlds Seen & Unseen
5 Women Artists

Exhibition Dates:
March 29 – April 20, 2019

Opening Reception: Friday March 29, 6PM – 9PM

Westbeth Gallery presents the dynamic show “Worlds Seen & Unseen” by five contemporary New York-based women artists: Karin Batten, Caroline Golden, Maggie Hinders, Carolyn Oberst, and Barbara Rachko. Through variations in media, form, and composition, their new works bring unseen worlds into focus. From far away worlds hail masks and animals, myths, inner dreams, and human interactions, offering female perspectives of new environments to be seen.

KARIN BATTEN spent her early years in Hamburg, Germany and London, England, where she attended art school before immigrating to the USA. In her travels throughout Europe, the Americas, India, and North Africa she draws and takes photographs of the environment, and creates mixed media paintings that recall these surroundings. She explores abstraction and representation to focus on the point of balance where the two worlds meet.

CAROLINE GOLDEN Caroline Golden’s collages explore familiar stories and legends from a unique perspective. Caroline draws forth iconic characters, their possessions and the interior spaces they inhabit in a dimensional relief of found paper imagery. Creating surreal new worlds, she invites the viewer in to investigate these narratives anew.

MAGGIE HINDERS is a painter and graphic artist. Her paintings of imaginary animals, derived from Internet photos, garden ornaments, and toys. With their fractured, Their colors kaleidoscopic—wryly echo the discordant opinions we hold of ourselves. She hails from western Ohio and currently lives in Hoboken, New Jersey. She is the creator of “little-pix” cartoon blog at little-pix.com.

CAROLYN OBERST is a pioneering interdisciplinary artist working across painting, drawing, mixed media, and wood relief. Originally from Philadelphia she settled in NYC after living in London, Southern Spain and Morocco. In her current paintings, Oberst combines figures and objects with abstract elements, which are placed in dream-like, non-literal settings, their animated quality capturing a sense of movement through time. While invoking memory, dreams and passing thoughts, narratives are suggested, but not defined.

BARBARA RACHKO is an American contemporary artist and author who divides her time between residences in New York City and Alexandria, VA. Barbara travels regularly to Mexico, Central America, South America, and Asia. She uses her large collection of Mexican and Guatemalan folk art­—masks, carved wooden animals, papier mâché figures, and toys—to create one-of-a-kind pastel-on-sandpaper paintings. These combine reality and fantasy and depict personal narratives.

Westbeth Gallery
55 Bethune Street b/w
Washington and West Sts.

Gallery Hours:
Wed- Sun Noon – 6PM

Contact:
Maggie Hinders
mahindersart@gmail.com