“Landscape: Unique Views” at Nancy Hoffman Gallery

February 15-March 18, 2003

This is to let you know that the next exhibition at Nancy Hoffman Gallery will be entitled “Landscape: Unique Views,” including works by David Bierk, Carolyn Brady, Rupert Deese, Mark Depman, Don Eddy, Michael Gregory, Gregory Halili, Claire Khalil, Ken Moylan, Lynn McCarty, Carlton Nell, Frank Owen, Scott Prior, Joseph Raffael,
Bill Richards and Ben Schonzeit. 

Some of the landscapes were created especially for this exhibition, such as the splendiferous garden view of Scott Prior, suffused with romantic mauve light bathing a garden filled with cosmos, tomatoes, bean house, amidst moist green grasses and plants; a real place suggesting a paradisiacal vision when the fog lifts—a garden of Brigadoon enchantment.  Ken Moylan’s signature window of inlaid wood veneers opens onto a landscape inspired by the majesty of the Grand Tetons, and the ambiance of the Hudson River painters who created idealized landscapes.  Moylan’s view is a dramatic one of mountain peaks, a cascading river and cloud filled sky.  Carlton Nell’s 6x10 inch oil paintings on wood capture the velvet green of Southern grass and trees and open up a large world view in small scale.

Other works have been painted over the past few years.  David Bierk’s Hudson Moon (2001), an ode to the ambiance and approach of the Hudson River School painters, is among the most poetic and heroic of the artist’s landscapes.  A summer moon kindles the sky of a misty golden night with tree-edged river.  Don Eddy’s Persephone Series: Farewell is an intense close-in view of an autumnal landscape with intertwining branches, filled with radiant orange and red autumn leaves.  The sky becomes more blue as autumn’s riot of color dresses the trees.  Frank Owen’s Between the Seasons III is an abstraction of the Adirondack landscape as it changes from fall to winter, as trees are stripped of their leaves and birch trees achieve a silvery sheen.  Imbued with atmosphere, Owen’s abstract painting is rooted in the landscape.

The above-mentioned works are only a few of the “unique views” comprising the range and liveliness of this landscape exhibition.

For additional information and/or photographs, please call 212-966-6676.