Landscapes:
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FALL LANDSCAPES EXHIBIT AT CARRIE HADDAD GALLERY
Carrie Haddad Gallery will host its annual Fall landscape show this
September 4th through October 12th, with new works by Leigh
Palmer,
Russell DeYoung, Tony Thompson, Paul Abrams, James
Bleecker and Laura Von Rosk.
Come and celebrate the beauty of the Hudson Valley as captured on canvas, wood, and paper by these local artists. A reception for the
artists on Saturday, September 6th from 6-8 PM is free and all are
welcome to attend.
Leigh Palmer from Tivoli, NY, paints landscapes descriptive of the area
he lives in. The images are based on his memory and feelings for the
familiar places where he lives or travels through. Palmer's methods and
the sometimes unexpected results infuse the work with melancholy, dreaminess, and isolation. He works in oil on both paper and canvas
mounted on board in both large and small formats.
Exhibiting for the first time at Carrie Haddad Gallery, Russell
DeYoung, an assistant professor of Painting and Drawing at The College of
St. Rose in Albany, paints small plein-air landscapes which attempt to
fuse time, place and self. DeYoung's free brushwork and nearly abstract
compositions recall such artists as Albert Pinkham Ryder and J.M.W
Turner. Even though the work is small in size, they are grand in design
and feeling. The luminosity and subtle color of his canvases express a
poetic wonder and appreciation of agrarian ritual and sacrifice.
Laura Von Rosk's landscape paintings are based mostly on memory, not of
places she's been but of places to go. Her paintings are not exact
renderings, but are representations of how she feels about the subject.
A resident of the Adirondacks, Von Rosk is inspired by the natural
beauty of her area. Her interpretation of the landscape explores the
feminine beauty of nature and her visual, emotional and spiritual relationship with the physical world.
Tony Thompson's crisp paintings of the Hudson River Valley and places
beyond establish him as a modern day Hudson River School painter. He
begins his paintings with sketches and photographs of his favorite
vistas in the region, as well as from his travels, and completes the
works in his Watervliet studio. Thompson's paintings embrace all of the
seasons, from rich fall colors to golden summers to barren trees covered
in thick white snow.
Paul Abrams, of Kingston, NY, has just recently started working within
the landscape genre, having spent years making beautiful, but quirky
still life paintings. His landscapes are dark and dreamy with predominantly turbulent skies. His subject is the Hudson River, but his
inspiration seems to come from Constable and Turner.
James Bleecker, who has been photographing the Hudson Valley region for
many years, has recently wandered a bit northeast into Vermont. The
resulting work introduces us to another breathtakingly beautiful area of
dramatic landscapes. Bleecker's new Iris prints are sepia toned and a
colossal 35 x 45 inches in size. Although these new prints are big, they
do not depict big landscapes, but rather landscape details. Two capture
sections of waterfalls, another reveals the forest floor covered in
ferns, and the last is a single tree in the mist.
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