Don Nice, Highlands Bass, 1991, 40 x 60 inches, watercolor on paper,
Collection of the Hudson River Museum. Gift of the artist, 2010

June 15 – September 15
Hudson River Contemporary: Works on Paper
Co-Curated by Dr. Katherine Manthorne and Mr. James McElhinney

This is the first exhibition of contemporary art in Boscobel’s gallery. Featured in the exhibition are works of art on paper which are at once personal, immediate, and ephemeral. A wide range of approach spans from realist and abstract drawings in traditional materials, to paintings on paper, constructions, collages, photographs, digital images, installations and conceptual art. During the 19th century artists regarded sketchbook drawings as preparatory fieldwork for studio inventions produced indoors. Today’s landscape artists manifest a more experimental attitude. Works on paper today function as resolved statements; providing direct access to the artists’ thinking about self, terrain, and environment. Following the footsteps of historic predecessors, today’s artists are giving visible form to issues of regional and national identity. Thirty exhibitors range from emerging artists to some with international reputations. Together their works begin to define a new Hudson River School
for the 21st century.

For a visual sampling of this exciting new exhibition,
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ARTISTS & WEBSITE LINKS:

Sigmund Abeles
Luis Alonso
Fern Apfel
Carolyn Marks Blackwood
Frederick Brosen
Emily Brown
Naomi Campbell
Sasha Chermayeff
Linda Cross
Anne Diggory
Richard Haas
Stephen Hannock
Dean Hartung
Gregory Frux
Walter Hatke
Eric Holzman
Peter Homitzky
Erik Koeppel
James Howard Kunstler
Lisa Lawley
Sarah McCoubrey
John Moore
Janet Morgan
Don Nice
Sylvia Plimack Mangold
Vincent Pomilio
Raquel Rabinovitch
Aurora Robson
Susan Shatter
Don Stinson
Joanne Pagano Weber
Ruth Wetzel
Douglas Wirls
Willie Anne Wright

CURATOR TALK 2pm
June 25
with Dr. Katherine Manthorne and Mr. James McElhinney
The Curators’ Gallery Talk will take place at 2pm on Saturday, June 25 and will be presented by the exhibition’s co-curators James L. McElhinney & Katherine Manthorne. The half-hour talk in the gallery will provide an introduction to the concepts and themes in the exhibition by the curators who organized it. They will explore the dialogue between today’s artists and their Hudson River School predecessors; the ways in which painters, photographers, and printmakers continue to find inspiration in this mighty waterway and the explosion of their creative responses to it. Mr. McElhinney and Dr. Manthorne will view highlights from the 65 works on paper assembled, from realistic renderings of the Hudson’s docks and piers by Frederick Brosen to Don Nice’s synthesis of river and wildlife and abstract works inspired by the valley’s distinct scenery by Vincent Pomilio. Discussions will also include paper as a central medium of contemporary landscape art.

GALLERY TALKS 2pm
July 10 & 31
August 14 & 28
September 11
CUNY graduate students who participated in the implementation of the exhibition will conduct talks in the gallery which are intended to enhance and educate.  They will foster appreciation of the exhibition by discussing the Hudson River as a site of artistic creativity, past and present; review the range of media and techniques by the artists represented (from realism to abstraction) and also spotlight the individual artists. Talks will last 20-25 minutes and be followed by a brief Q&A.

Free admission to Exhibition and Gallery Talks
with the purchase of a House Tour
Friends of Boscobel: Free

Open Invitation
MEET THE ARTISTS

HUDSON RIVER CONTEMPORARY: LANDSCAPE IN NEW AMERICAN ART
A Panel Discussion at the Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery,
The Art Students League of New York
Wednesday June 29 from 7-9pm
Reception to follow

Nearly two hundred years have passed since the founding of the Hudson River School, which gave the United States its first major artistic movement and canonical visual identity. In the last century the New York School expanded the canon with Abstract Expressionism. The Hudson River Valley inspires artists today, drawing some to work and dwell along the tributaries and greenways of America’s first great thoroughfare. Realist revivals together with new media, abstraction, graphic arts and photography continue to lead artists to seek inspiration in the natural beauty, history and unfolding future of the Hudson River Valley. This panel will present competing views on the American landscape past and present, followed by questions, answers and discussions. 

Moderator: James Lancel McElhinney, Co-curator with Dr. Katherine E. Manthorne of
Hudson River Contemporary: Works on Paper
June 15 to September 15, 2011
Boscobel House and Gardens, Garrison NY

McElhinney teaches drawing at the Art Students league of New York and at Pratt. He is a visual artist and author of Classical Life Drawing Studio, Sterling Publishing 2010.

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