Landscape, Reimagined

The Landscape, Reimagined - a group exhibition including five local artists who are presenting an array of landscape interpretation, from traditional to radical and contemporary.

The landscape is among the most familiar but resonant subject matter. In the Hudson Valley, we are familiar with the Hudson River School, an art movement by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism. We may not see the Hudson Valley exactly as they did, but landscapes surround us every day: whether in our domestic arrangements, our urban lives, or just what we see out the window.  Landscapes are reminders of our deep history with and connections to nature, to places we have lived or imagine inhabiting - a landscape in which we the viewer can insert yearnings, memories, dreams.  Artists have continued to return to and reimagine the landscape: some find resonance in natural, realistic interpretations; others reinterpret the genre…