In a time when the word icon can mean anything from commercialized images that flood the media to religious icons, the paintings of Linda Smith, Secular Icons, help to fill a void in contemporary life. In a complex stressful world, her paintings offer a place for quiet meditation, without a specific doctrine.
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The exhibition, entitled “Passages,” includes ten new works varying in size from miniature premiere coupe studies to ambitious large-scale diptychs, all of which focus on the trees surrounding Grimes’ studios in Connecticut and Maine. Ranging from the stark and somber to the lush and sensuous, these trees appear as personages, which are immediately observed and yet metaphorical, with implications of time, change, mortality and rebirth.
Blue Mountain Gallery presents the work of two artists, Marjorie Kramer and Sam Thurston, who both use the carefully observed world as a starting point for range of expressive works in a variety of mediums. The artists work in New York City and Vermont.
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Blue Mountain Gallery is pleased to announce our first national Juried Exhibition. Twenty five artists working in a range of styles and media have been selected by Andrea Wells, Director of the Tibor de Nagy Gallery.
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In her solo show, Singular Obsessions, Helene Manzo visits and revisits subjects and themes that have long recurred in her paintings and prints. She continues to be inspired by the energy of the movement of water and the profusion of plant life. Manzo transforms those observations into evocative works that that contain dialogues between clarity and mystery, order and chaos.
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Blue Mountain Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Gulgun Aliriza’s inaugural exhibition The Poetics of Excess. The show is comprised of a collection of paintings produced over the past several years. Aliriza’s richly surfaced canvases, bursting with intricate details directly from the motif, reflects a process that involves weeks, or sometimes months. Throughout these paintings there is a tension between the intimate figurative content hidden beneath the surface and the bold formal qualities of her canvases celebrated by dynamic attributes of paint.
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