Elliott Green: AutoRevisionism at Pamela Salisbury Gallery
I have a longstanding obsession with Elliott Green’s paintings. They live somewhere between landscape and abstraction, constantly shifting between different planes and viewpoints. I’m fascinated by the swirling forms and contrast of geometry with washes of color. It was a pleasant surprise to see that Green’s current exhibition AutoRevisionism features small paintings on paper, along
We Wear the Mask at the Dorsky Museum
We Wear the Mask: Race and Representation in the Dorsky Museum Permanent Collection, curated by Jean-Marc Superville Sovak at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, closes on Sunday, November 22. It’s a must-see show and a timely example of an institution looking inwards to explore depictions of race within its own
Meg Hitchcock: Illuminate at the Garrison Art Center
One of the best exhibitions in the Hudson Valley this fall is Meg Hitchcock’s exquisite solo show Meg Hitchcock: Illuminate at the Garrison Art Center, on view through November 8. The show features three series of works on paper dating from 2008 to the present. The larger gallery includes minutely detailed collages composed of individual
Exercising Creativity
The Dia Art Foundation is meeting the challenges of offering educational opportunities during this difficult time with innovative programs. In late March of this year, Dia launched a new blog—diaart.blog—after its various sites closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The blog contains Artist Prompts, a series of interactive exercises designed by artists. At first glance,
Reinventing the Residency
The Hudson Valley has long been a summer destination for artists and creative types escaping the city and looking for quiet inspiration in nature. With orders to shelter in place extended through May and beyond, it is a particularly difficult time for the Hudson Valley’s many artist residencies. The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing residencies to
Mollie McKinley: The Survival Language of Beauty
Beauty is not an irrelevant, superficial thing in times of crisis.Here I mean beauty as a visual language of poetics, a way of interpreting the world through unconventional means. Mollie McKinley’s work is beautiful and mysterious. It has an uncanny, otherworldly quality, yet it is solidly grounded in the earth. McKinley deftly moves between photography,
Carl Grauer: Two Hour Portraits
In 2012, Carl Grauer, a painter based in Poughkeepsie, NY started a project called Two Hour Portraits as a way to connect with people. He invited friends and acquaintances to sit with him for two hours, during which time he would complete a 12″ x 12″ oil painting. The project was so successful that it
