Contemporary Long Island Landscape Painting
On View at Mishkin Gallery

A 19th century Painting Tradition Continues

Despite the many changes that have overtaken Long Island in the last 150 years, its attraction as locale and subject matter for painters persists. Re-Viewing Nature: Long Island Landscape Painting Today, on view at the Mishkin Gallery from Friday, October 1 thru Thursday, October 28, provides ample testimony to Long Island as a continuing haven for artists whose work draws inspiration from Nature.

The twenty-three contemporary artists whose paintings appear in this exhibition work in styles that range from near photographic realism to pure abstraction. Like their 19th century predecessors, they strive to capture the waterways and hidden byways of Long Island, the special qualities of light, and the broad, flat terrain. Though most of the artists chose traditional landscape subjects - cherry trees, a trout pond, the night sky over the water-occasionally more jarring elements appear, as in Janet Culbertson's mixed media depiction of the Long Island Expressway.

Long Island, and particularly its Eastern End, was an established summer colony for artists by the 1860s. Summer art schools, like the one founded by William Merritt Chase in Southampton, have flourished there continuously, and even abstract Long Island Painters expressionist painters like Pollock and de Kooning felt the Island's lure. Today the area continues to be home to a thriving artistic community.

This exhibition is curated by Ronald G. Pisano, a former director of The Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, and the author of two books on Long Island landscape painting. Artists in this show include:
Sam Adoquei, John Alexander, Eleanor Berger, Lisa Breslow, Stan Brodsky, Janet Culbertson, Mary Ellen Doyle, Berenice D'Vorzon, Cornelia Foss, Jane Freilicher, Polly Kraft, Bruce Lieberman, Paton Miller, Pat Moran, Malcolm Morley, Roy Nicholson, Leo Revi, Casimir Rutkowski, Ty Stroudsburg, Mary Stubelek, Marilyn Turtz, Robert Valdes, and Jane Wilson. Most of these painters have made Long Island landscapes their principal subject. Many of the paintings are very recent, done within the past two or three years. The wide diversity of styles and viewpoints seen in this exhibition only underscores the broad and lasting appeal of Long Island to the painterly eye.

Re-Viewing Nature: Long Island Landscape Painting Today will be on view at the Mishkin Gallery, 135 East 22 Street from Oct. 1 - Oct. 28, 1999.
Gallery hours are:
Monday-Friday, 12 noon to 5 pm;
Thursdays 12 noon to 7 pm.
Opening Reception:
Thursday, Sept. 30, 5-7 pm.
Free and open to the public.
Sandra Kraskin (gallery)
(212) 802-2690

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