Carrie Haddad Gallery just sent us an email announcing a new exhibit, Nature Abstracted, which will be featuring paintings by Elise Freda and works on paper by Madelon Jones. Continuing into the back room are paintings by Joseph Maresca and Nancy Rutter. The exhibit will be on view from January 7th, 2010 through February 15th, 2010.
Reception for collectors:
Saturday, January 9th from 6-8pm.
I am especially fond of Nancy Rutter’s work so I’d like to encourage you all to pop into Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson to see her beautifully elusive paintings.
Nancy Rutter, Blue Path, 46 x 46 acrylic on canvas $4200
Nancy Rutter’s paintings emanate warmth. Some depict navigable landscapes softened by the loose sweep of her stroke. Her vast simplification of color and form forces these works to occupy a captivatingly slippery space between abstraction and representation. In “Green Spring” a triangular form at one moment bridges foreground and background, receding into deep space, while the next moment it stands up, its whole form pressed against the picture plane to declare the canvas’s flatness and defy illusionistic space. Contributing to this sense that each shape rests on the surface of the picture is the pleasing recurrence of color – corals, apricots, gentle greens – throughout a single composition. Rutter’s most successful works straddle the divide between representational, referential painting, and non-referential painting. These elusive paintings offer the most dynamic spectatorial experience, challenging the viewer’s perceptual certainty.
Nancy Rutter Green Fields, 40 x 46, $4000
Carrie Haddad Gallery
622 Warren Street, Hudson, NY
(518) 828 1915
www.carriehaddadgallery.com
Gallery hours 11-5, closed Tues. and Wed.
It is wonderful to see the quality of work represented in your gallery. Really first class. Thank You. M S Ryan