In Conversation: Yevgeniya Baras and Nanette Carter: Moderated by Andrew Woolbright
Wednesday, July 29, 2026, 6 pm
Berry Campbell, 524 W 26th Street, New York
On the occasion of Leitmotif, a collaborative exhibition organized in partnership between Berry Campbell and Sargent’s Daughters, Berry Campbell is hosting an artist talk centering the abstract artistic practices of Yevgeniya Baras and Nanette Carter, moderated by Andrew Woolbright.
Yevgeniya Baras is an artist based in New York. Baras' paintings take shape through a process of layering and accumulation, combining oil media with various found and unconventional materials. Yevgeniya is a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner grant in 2023 and 2018. Baras was named Senior Fulbright Scholar for 2022/2023. She was a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in 2021 and the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2019. Baras was selected for the Chinati Foundation Residency in 2018 and the Yaddo Residency in 2017. She received the Artadia Prize and was selected for the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program and the MacDowell Colony residency in 2015. In 2014, she was named a recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Prize. Her work has been reviewed in the New York Times, LA Times, ArtForum, The New York Review of Books, and Art in America, amongst others. Baras co-founded and co-curated Regina Rex Gallery in New York’s Lower East Side (2010-2018).
Nanette Carter is an artist based in New York, known for her abstract collages that express her sensitivity to contemporary social issues and her responses to the drama of nature. Exhibiting her work nationally and internationally since the mid-1970s, Carter has produced multimedia works on Mylar since 1997. Her art reflects the Black American abstract art tradition, drawing inspiration from mentors like Alvin Loving Jr., and is influenced by jazz, Japanese prints, Russian Constructivism, and Abstract Expressionism. Her work has been featured in prominent exhibitions, including Magnetic Fields and African-American Artists & Abstraction, and she has received numerous grants and awards for her contributions to the arts. Carter's art continues to expand in thematic, technical, and humanistic dimensions, solidifying her legacy as a significant figure in contemporary abstract art.
Andrew Paul Woolbright is an artist and writer living in Brooklyn, NY and is an MFA graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design. In addition to exhibiting, he is an Editor at the Brooklyn Rail, and founder of the artist-run gallery Below Grand on the Lower East Side. In 2024, he was awarded the Irving Sandler Prize, awarded annually to an artist that builds community as part of their artistic practice. He currently teaches at Pratt Institute and The School of Visual Arts in New York.
