Gather At the River

Anne Neilson Fine Art 532 Governor Morrison Street Suite 110 Charlotte NC 28211 704-496-9181

Exhibition Dates : January 19 - February 27, 2021

Opening Reception : Thursday, February 11th, 12-8pm

Anne Neilson Fine Art, in Charlotte, NC proudly Launches into the New Year with their first solo exhibition by emerging artist Case Baumgarten, who graduated with a BFA from the lauded Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington D.C. in 2018. Demonstrating talent from a young age, Case is the son of the late artist / sculptor / teacher / genius Lee Baumgarten, mentor to thousands of burgeoning minds over the decades before his tragic death in 2018. Carrying the torch of his father’s creative proclivities, Case is an accomplished artist in his own right, winning the First Place award at his senior thesis show at Corcoran, exhibiting at KrunsHaus Gallery in Alexandria, Virginia, as well as in Cologne and Berlin, Germany. The compelling emotional depth, spiritual gravitas, and material alchemy of his work belie his tender age of 24. Since the advent of joining ANFA one year ago, his work has been placed in dozens of noteworthy private and corporate collections.

Baumgarten’s body of work presents the incessant search for lost loved ones. Through abstraction and realism, his paintings push the viewer to address all images of faith. In his own words, “Even in moments of familiarity and what is recognized, lay emotions of helplessness and sorrow with these figures. The experience of color and the absence of color serve as vessels for the figure through spiritual territories. As I developed my art after the passing of my beloved father, I returned to this series, only to realize I had been creating self portraits. That these figures were a representation of my own search for a lost loved one.”