Exhibitions at Locust Grove

The Transverse Gallery in Locust Grove’s Museum Pavilion hosts a series of exhibits of works by contemporary artists each year. 

 

Hudson Valley Paintings

A solo exhibition by Warren Hurley

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On view March 28th through May 12th

Opening Reception: Friday, April 5th,  5pm – 7pm

“Most of my current work explores the countryside near High Falls, New York where I live. I particularly like painting snow. I attempt to capture the quiet that comes just after dawn or shortly before dusk. I want to show the unique colors of light reflected off of a blanket of snow or the different properties that distinguish water from ice in a winter pond. I have also been working on a series of still life paintings comprised of a simple bouquet of flowers purchased at the supermarket and placed casually in a plain glass vase. In these paintings it is the color and distortion created by light refracted through the water in the vase that intrigues me.

I received a BS in Art Education from SUNY New Paltz, an MS in Art Education from New York University, and certification as a school district administrator from Pace University. I taught drawing, painting and printmaking at all levels of education in New York State. In 1979, I was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship providing the opportunity to teach in Edinburgh, Scotland for one year. Now retired, I work full-time as an artist.”   – Warren Hurley.

 

Variation

A solo exhibition by Ellen Metzger O’Shea

On view May 15 through June 30

 

 

 

 

 

 

Opening Reception:  May 30, 5pm – 7pm

Ellen Metzger O’Shea has been painting since her early studio classes at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY and later in her graduate studios at the State University of New York at New Paltz.  Alex Martin introduced Ellen to Plein Air landacape painting, and in the 1990′s she worked with Stuart Diamond and began using collage and photo transfer in her work.  More recently, Ellen studied with Tim Hawkesworth and today she paints in her attic studio in Poughkeepsie where she sees “only the tree tops and the sky.”

 

 

Hudson Valley Paintings

A solo exhibition by Scott Thomas Balfe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On view July 3 through August 18

“When I paint in the field, I try to create something that is partly what I see and partly what I would like to see, or where I would like to be, and for me in doing this I am creating my own handwriting in oil paint.”  – Scott Thomas Balfe.

 

 

Plein Air Paintings

 A solo exhibition by Laura Martinez-Bianco

 

 

 

 

 

 

On view August 21 through October 6

“As a plein air painter I am drawn to landscape, light and color. I am always eager to explore the relationships between color and light. The way in which colors are altered by the type of light and amount of light, determined by the time of day and kind of day.  I believe that by painting on site you bring more to the painting than just what appears, but also how it feels. I hope that when people view my work they not only see the landscape that I saw but feel the air, atmosphere and space that I felt.”    -  Laura Martinez-Bianco

 

Contemporary Prints

A solo exhibition by Roxanne Johnson

On view October 9 through November 17 

 

 

Hudson Valley Paintings

A solo exhibition by Stacie Flint

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On view November 20 through January 2014

The art of New Paltz artist Stacie Flint is a personal reflection on “daily life” through expressionist means and vibrant colors. Her paintings have been sought after in the US and in Europe; her commissioned portraits are in many public and private collections. As an illustrator, she has contributed to magazines, album covers, and books.