"The Model is Posing" opens October 9!

Thor Wickstrom

The next show in the gallery looks at the long-lived and very-much-alive tradition of working from the model in the studio.  We'll be posting artists' work throughout the month!

Last two days for "Re/Imaging New York"!

"Cement Park, the Bronx" Valeri Larko

The gallery will be open Sunday, 9/5 and Monday, Labor Day, 9/6.   Last chance to see "Re/Imaging New York", featuring paintings and drawings by Jaye Fox, Valeri Larko, Eric March and Thor Wickstrom.

"Queens Boulevard" Eric March

one painting's journey from a Brooklyn street to a North Adams gallery

One thing the painters in "Re/Imaging New York" (and, come to think of it, all of our other shows...) have in common is a tendency to paint on site. Along the way, they occasionally meet interesting people, mostly forklift drivers. Last week, however, Jaye Fox was working on a late addition to the gallery, and a Williamsburg art blogger snapped a shot of the infant piece, here, re-posted entirely without permission from it's original source at http://hragv.tumblr.com/post/977539226 : The final piece, "Landmark",  is the iconic Russian Orthodox church that presides over this little corner of Brooklyn.

It's conceived as a wry companion piece to "What Smell?", of the digester eggs at the Greenpoint sewage treatment plant, featured in an earlier post. Here's an installation shot of the two together:

Re/Imaging New York, open through September 6, 2010

We're pleased that the show has been so well-received!  Come visit us 12-5 on Saturdays, 10-1 on Sundays, or anytime by appointment or chance.

"Re/Imaging New York" Opening Today, 7/31, from 3-7!

Contemporary realism by Valeri Larko, Eric March, Jaye Fox and Thor Wickstrom.  Exploring the fringes of New York City.  Same place as always, 189 Beaver St. a.k.a. Route 8, North Adams. Come see! 

Thor Wickstrom "Big Sky Country"

Jaye Fox, "What Smell?"

LAST CHANCE for "Common Places", Featuring Julia Morgan-Leamon

This is the last weekend for "Common Places", a show celebrating painterly moments in everyday places.  It's been terrific to welcome new artists to show in the gallery, among them Julia Morgan-Leamon.  Julia's free, painterly style is really something that has to be seen in person, and savored a bit.  Confident, direct brushstrokes anchor her work in realism, but also imbue her ordinary subjects with an almost spiritual overtone. Her paintings shimmer with life.

Featured Artist: Henry Buerckholtz

Although his home base is in Greenwich Village, Henry Buerckholtz has an affinity for capturing rural roadside America.  His depictions of working farms in the Pioneer Valley (Massachusetts), Ocala (Florida), Long Island and North Carolina honor the particular characteristics of each place, yet manage to feel recognizable and familiar.