Hot off the Presses
Call the fire department, these babies are coming in hot. New Prints arrived for the Art’s Society of Kingston’s November show Echo in the Valley.
I feel so honored to have had three of my submitted pieces make the cut through jury selection.
This is the first show I’ve applied to since 2018, so it feels almost like shaking the dust off and coming out of artistic hibernation. The parameters of this show centered on images capturing the Hudson Valley in it’s majesty through a lens. Over the last few years I’ve come to appreciate the epic beauty of the landscape in which I find myself, it’s impressive nature oft floating to the forefront of my thoughts.
One of the magical elements of the valley for me is it’s ever changing diversity, both in the nature of the landscape itself and through the passing of time. I decided to submit one piece capturing the beauty of the valley in each of the four seasons. Of the four submitted three were chosen for the final show.
The first piece is “Soft” representing the Spring and the subtle textured beauty that can be found exists even on damp dreary March afternoons. “Autumn Hudson” was chosen second, representing the Fall. The bright colors, the damp earth, waterfowl nestled together for a rest as they’re passing through. This piece for me encapsulates the incendiary transformation the Valley undergoes during the Fall that draws so many in to take a peek at the leaves.
Finally “Frozen Earth” was selected for Winter. This piece was captured on a piece of land that caught my attention on the long drive I would take once a week the first time I sought out a therapist for issues I was having in my life. I was fascinated by this frozen landscape that seemed so cold and void of life. This same landscape that in the coming months those networks of ice would thaw, the bulbs would sprout and the wetland would return to hosting a myriad of creatures. This piece the most for me speaks to the phases we go through as human beings, and how the cold quiet points are just as integral to our joy as the days we get to experience it.
Anyway there’s a brief rundown of the works on display at ASK this month.
Echo in the Valley is on display at their gallery, 97 Broadway, Kingston NY, November 6th-27th 2021 open Tues-Sun from 1-6pm.
https://www.askforarts.org/