Landscapes Into Art

C. Grimaldis Gallery is pleased to present "Landscapes Into Art": a survey exhibition of landscape painting. Characterized by a dedication to place, these works transcribe the experience of open space with exuberance and selectivity on scales both intimate and expansive. Local and faraway scenes include the Mid-Atlantic countryside, remembered villages left behind in childhood, and surreal apocalyptic projections.

The artists in this exhibition often work within a set limit of time dictated by the movement of light, thus infusing their paintings with an awareness of the expanse of a day (or night). In many works we witness the natural begin to fracture, whether by the displacement of memory or in the presence of human traces; a farmhouse, a headstone, an abandoned laboratory on the tundra.

A vista can be defined as a pleasing view seen through a long, narrow opening. Occasionally, this frame is present in the work as a window or archway - apertures which call attention to the painting itself as an opening through which a fragment of the sublime may be witnessed. Scenic details are magnified or omitted in the face of vast amounts of sensory information. Through such a window, to quote Eugene Leake, "the paintings that work right are the ones where I've found the truth of a given hour."

The exhibition will be on view from October 27 - December 22, 2016. An opening reception will take place on Thursday, October 27, 6 - 8pm.