Painted
City:
Cityscapes
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PAINTED CITY EXHIBIT AT CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY
Each year since opening her gallery over a decade ago, Carrie Haddad has curated an exhibit of cityscapes. Paintings of citylife that capture the urban architecture, busy activities of the inhabitants, and, of course, a dramatic skyline are favorite images of the gallery owner. This May, once more, the Carrie Haddad Gallery will showcase a group show "Painted City". The exhibit runs from May 4th to June 8th. All are welcome to attend the reception and meet the artists on Saturday, May 10th from 6-8pm.
As in most group shows, there will be a variety of styles and techniques represented. Phil Levine, Bill Sullivan and Carl Scorza each use Manhattan as their subject. As a native New Yorker, Carl Scorza was a participant in the World Views artist-in-residence program which provided artists with the chance to set up their easels high in the World Trade Center. Scorza painted more than 50 cityscapes while in the World Trade Center, five of which will be on display. Bill Sullivan, a new resident of Hudson, is exhibiting a large evening skyline of Manhattan, and Phil Levine focuses primarily on the Village. Each artist’s works are oil on canvas.
Paul Chojnowski’s moody, sepia toned pieces could not be more different. They are created in a very unconventional method of drawing with water on thick paper which he then scorches to the very edge of bursting into flame. The process is an astounding blend of control and accident in which Chojnowski captures with immense precision a variety of photographic city scenes.
Andrew Edwards is attracted to a less fashionable area of city life - highways and street signs. His very realistic paintings find beauty in the off beat locations of intersections and on ramps.
Richard Britell paints soft, romantic visions of familiar cities like Paris and Venice, and Duncan Hannah has captured nostalgic views of London.
Of those with which the local views hold much inspiration, Margaret Crenson and Darshan Russell paint areas from Poughkeepsie to Albany. Another such artist is David Arsenault from upstate New York. Arsenault’s work has been favorably compared to that of the revered American realist Edward Hopper. The intense solitude and dramatic light that permeates his paintings comes in part from David’s desire to create an image that touches upon one’s need of aloneness and contemplation.
Also included in the show are local artists Kari Boyd, with dark and moody etchings of Hudson, and a colorful show stopper from Hudson’s master painter, Edward Avedisian.
Columbia county architect and photographer Arthur Baker will present his second photo exhibit in the Upstairs Photography Gallery with recent landscapes of the area, Goudy architecture from a recent trip to Barcelona, and a preview of two wooden churches from his upcoming book of Columbia County Churches.
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