'Painting in the Park" Exhibition
Lori Bookstein Fine Art
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“Painting in the Park,” is a celebration of New York City’s most valuable assets— its numerous parks— and the painters who have immortalized them over the course of the last century. Landscape painting has traditionally investigated the effects of weather, light, and space. The “marriage of earth and sky,” of course, takes on an entirely new cast when the backdrop consists of walls of buildings instead of open sky. On one level, the works in “Painting in the Park” are explorations of nature accommodating, and accommodated by, the peculiar energy of the modern urban environment. This mirrors the dual motives of the painters themselves, who pursue the traditional allures of nature while residing and working in the electronic age. Many of the paintings depict Central Park, but the exhibition also includes scenes of Madison Square Park, Governors Island, Riverside Park, and Red Hook Park, as well as aerial views of Battery Park, Union Square, Tompkins Square, and Randall’s Island. The artists’ approaches range from faithful realism to expressionistic forays and stylized interpretations.
[Carolyn Harris "Park, River and Monument II" (1985) Oil on board, 12 x 14 in.]
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Schedule
from July 01, 2008 to August 01, 2008
Artist(s)
Gifford Beal, Nell Blaine, John Heliker, Jane Peterson, Maurice Prendergas, Violet Baxter, Richard Chiriani, Catherine Drabkin, John Dubrow, Phyllis Floyd, Stanley Friedman, John Goodrich, Carolyn Harris, Diana Horowitz, Su-Li Hung, Penny Kronengold, Richard La Presti, Gael Mooney, Elizabeth O’Reilly, Kamilla Talbot, Trevor Winkfield et al.