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Artist Statement:
Artist's Statement:
Growing up in a beautiful part of the world, the Pacific Northwest, has been a grounding for my appreciation of my present surroundings clear across the country, in the Hudson Valley of New York. My response to the beauty of the landscape is an elegy for our loss of untouched innocent countryside, and a fusion of atmosphere and solidity to heighten the serenity I feel in being in nature.
In order to avoid being sentimental or manipulative, I find myself focussing more on the painting process than on a realistic portrayal. I let the paint itself stand in for the subject. It could be the dry brushing of the particles, to indicate the mystery and frailty of the image in the atmosphere. Or slathering, scraping, eroding the lost color buried in layers. The perspective shifts, losing or distorting the horizon, sometimes flying out to aerial views.
Although striving for a distillation of my initial responses to the mystery of a scene, I continue to begin a painting with a representational sketch or photo reference, then let the dram, the light and the season give their direction to the conceptualization of the painting process.
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Artist Galleries:
Briggs Mountain Gallery, Milan, NY
Showing in September
Sharada Gallery, Rhinebeck, NY
Oil, pastels, contemporary landscapes, on exhibit now
Arlington Art Gallery Poughkeepsie, NY
Oil paintings, representational landscapes,on exhibit now
Mark Gruber Gallery New Paltz, NY
Landscapes in pastel, March-May '08
Sandpiper Gallery Wellfleet, MA
Oil Paintings of ...
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Artist Reviews:
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Collections:
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Commissions:
Several collectors in the Hudson Vallley have purchased commissioned paintings of a favorite place, or in a favorite color pallette. I work from photos and color swatches, with a deposit and an approval process.
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Exhibitions for Kari Feuer:
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4-09: Invitational fundraising auction, James Cox Gallery @ Locust Grove
4-09: Opening exhibition Gazan Gallery, Rhinebeck, NY
10-08: "New Directions": Juried contemporary art at Barrett Art Center,
Poughkeepsie NY
9-08: "Painting the Light" Briggs Mountain Gallery, Milan NY.
8-08: Summer Collection: Sharada Gallery, Rhinebeck NY
3-08: Mark Gruber Gallery, New Paltz, NY: "A Softer Side" Four artists in pastels
2-08: Bard College exhibit for "Focus the Nation: Global Warming"
2007-08: Selected work on exhibit at Arlington Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
9-07: Albert Shahinian Fine Arts, Poughkeepsie, NY: "The Luminous Landscape"
6-07: Solo Show: Hammertown Gallery, Rhinebeck, NY
2007-08: Summer show: Sandpiper Gallery, Wellfleet MA
1-07: Invitational solo exhibit for young collectors, Scarsdale, NY
Ross & Rodnick, artists' representatives, New York, NY
9-06: Jury-awarded Solo Show: Samuel Morse Historic Site, Poughkeepsie
9-06: Albert Shahinian Fine Arts, Poughkeepsie, NY: "The Luminous Landscape"
2-06: Solo Show: Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
3-05: Mark Gruber Gallery, New Paltz, NY: "Paper Routes"
2002-2007: New Hudson River School Paint-Out and auction: Rhinebeck, NY
2001-2007: Fall for Art, Ulster County Jewish Federation
(Purchase Prize awarded 2004)
2001-2005: Dutchess County Land Conservancy Farm Tour Exhibitions
2001: Omega Institute Solo Show
Barrett Art Center and Woodstock Art Association group shows:
Top honors in 1998, 2000, 2001
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