This Land - Susan Eley Fine Art Gallery, New York

Rachel Burgess, Katherine Curci, Deborah Freedman and Rachelle Krieger

January 14 – February 28, 2021 | Opening Reception: January 16, 2021
433 Warren St, Hudson, NY 12534

To open the 2021 season in Hudson, Susan Eley Fine Art presentsThis Land.—an exhibition of contemporary landscapes by women artists, which reflects on the prominence and potency of this genre throughout the history of art, as well as the gallery’s location within the Hudson Valley. Created using divergent techniques and styles—from colorful, abstracted canvases to detailed charcoal renderings—the featured artworks capture real locales, places dear to each artist. Whether expressing longing, memory, hope or torment, these artists share a collective impulse to mark moments in time in particular places of distinctive beauty.

KATHERINE CURCI

Katherine Curci began this series of charcoal drawings, premiered in This Land., at the start of the pandemic. Working from photographs, both captured by the artist and drawn from outside sources, Curci has completed some 75 seascapes and landscapes. Each scene is fully realized and highly nuanced—rendered in such expert detail that her works can often be perceived as photographs. Featured imagery includes specific places throughout her home country of Canada, as well as in regions of South America and Europe. Carefully manipulating the pressure of the charcoal, Curci achieves all tones—from the deepest, velvety black to pure white highlights, while encompassing all tonalities in between. She captures sfumato cloud covers and misty seas, as well as highly detailed and densely populated tree stands.

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
In an ongoing effort to recognize the histories and contemporary realities of Native American people in the Hudson Valley region, Susan Eley Fine Art acknowledges the Native American presence on the land where our building is located. The Hudson gallery resides within the traditional homelands of many Indigenous nations, including the Mahican, Wappinger, Lenni-Lenape and Iroquois peoples.