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October 25th through December 2nd, 2001
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• Jane Bloodgood-Abrams
• David Halliday
• Judith Hoyt
• Shai Eynav

showing at the Carrie Haddad Gallery
October 25th through December 2nd 2001.

A reception is scheduled for Saturday,
October 27th from 6-8 pm and all are welcome to attend.

....Jane Bloodgood-Abrams lives in Kingston and
has been painting the Hudson Valley landscape for over
a decade. Her technique mimics the Hudson River School
of painters, but her inspiration is pure Innes.
Bloodgood_Abrams creates luminous, spiritual heavens
on earth. Her subtle impressions of nature and its light,
atmosphere, and color are registered on canvas with
a consummate attention to detail. The tonal effects of her
oil and pastel paintings provide the viewer with the lushly
vegetated landscape of an autumn marsh, the variegated
hues of a sunset, or the calming, meditative view of two
simple trees in a pasture. Each picture is a gentle invitation
to an intimate, sublime experience with nature.

....David Halliday’s sepia_toned photographs of diminutive portraits, landscapes and still lifes,
are created with the painstaking attention to structure and compositional design reminiscent of
Old Master paintings. His tranquil, quietly contemplative paintings and photographs are filled with
caressing light or are defined by strong, balanced contrasts, betraying his aspiration for harmony,
purity, and equilibrium. The depiction of everyday subjects ranging from fruit, palmettos, and insects,
to portraits, nudes, and even a marching band in a Mardi Gras procession, expose his technical
bravura and ability to imbue his compositions with a mythical, spiritual, and timeless quality.
In Halliday’s clearly structured pictures, simple objects take on monumental lives.

....Working somewhere between painting, collage, and sculpture, Judith Hoyt, a former resident
of Hunter, who now lives in New Paltz, has developed a highly individual, and magical style.
A versatile artist, Hoyt’s interest in texture and the expressive treatment of surface is immediately
evident in her works.
There is a unique sensuality to her raw materials that are culled from the human detritus found
along roadsides and in dumps. Her playful figures, coarsely incised or embedded in earth_colored,
filmic layers of collage material, conjure up the archetypal human, without narrative intention.
In addition to paper collage made from book strips and newspapers, Hoyt creates an abundance
of textures using oil paints, rusted or dented metal, wood, tar, cement, and wire.
What may be misinterpreted as naive folk art in her work, is in fact where Hoyt has treated her
subjects in a consciously childlike and rudimentary manner, to express her principal theme of the
human condition and the processes of entropy. Hoyt also sees her constructions of vessels as
reliquaries of the human soul and spirit.With her experimental approach to materials and use of
everyday objects, Hoyt is in many ways able to overcome the gulf between art and life.

....An artist from Israel now working as a freelance photographer in Ithaca, Shai Eynav sees himself
as a "light painter." He literally captures light projected from a hand held light source exposed on
chemically reactive paper from up to two to twenty minutes long. Without the use and artificial effects
of high technology digital imagery, Eynav’s photographic experiments produce dramatic compositions
of a poetic world. Through microscopic patterns and plays of light exposed on emulsion, the artist
transcribes his impressions with an incomparably fresh eye and theatrical intensity.
The spontaneity and freshness of his creations is due in part to his ability to avoid photographic
manipulations. Electing to concentrate on chance light effects, chemical reactions, and the careful
positioning of elements, Eynav is able to achieve a marked directness. His almost theatrical, and
sometimes, baroque scenes seem to capture profound moments in emotional, visual, and aesthetic
terms, giving them a timeless, transcendent power. Eynav’s compositions not only activate the eye
of the observer, but also the mind, leading it to explore the patterns of order and disorder that
characterize the phenomenal world and our human relationships.

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