Who: ASK Members and Studio Tour Participants
What: En Plein Air and Selections from the Open Studios Tour, two exhibits at ASK
Where: Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston, NY 12401
When: October 4th – 25th Opening reception: Saturday, October 4th, 5–8pm.
Cost: Free
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Who: ASK Members and Studio Tour Participants
What: En Plein Air and Selections from the Open Studios Tour, two exhibits at ASK
Where: Arts Society of Kingston, 97 Broadway, Kingston, NY 12401
When: October 4th – 25th Opening reception: Saturday, October 4th, 5–8pm.
Cost: Free
ASK takes you outdoors and in, with two exhibits this October. Curated by Lynne Friedman, the first show is titled En Plein Air, meaning the practice of painting outdoors. Our second show, Selections from the Open Studios Tour, highlights our participants who are opening their studios to the public.
The Plein Air Tradition and Exhibit
In the late 19th century landscape painting became a crucial medium of modern art. It was not until 1848 that pure landscape, without historical references, was exhibited sat the Paris Salon. By the 1860s landscape painting had become enormously popular and vehicle for modernist innovation. In 1861 the writer Maxime du Camp described landscape as direct communion with nature and inducing a feeling of solitude.
The practice of painting outdoors, en plein air, was established by the Barbizon School in France beginning in the 1830s followed of course by the Impressionists innovations with an emphasis on light and color.
Our Hudson Valley landscape painters today follow a venerable tradition. Landscape paintings moves the painter out of the studio demanding a sensitivity to a site as experienced on the spot as well as encouraging physical explorations of the Hudson Valley environs.
There will be the beautifully structured water colors of Staats Fasoldt, the subtle colors of watercolorist Claudia Engel, the expressionist sensibility of Vindora Wixon and the work of old and new members like Amy Fall.
Selections from the Open Studio Tour
When artists can’t create outdoors, they come in to their studios. This October 4th , 11 am – 5pm, many professional local and regional artists will open their working space to the public. Space has been provided by Mike Piazza at The Shirt Factory, 77 Cornell Street for artists currently without studios or with studios outside the area. Selection of art from these participating artists will be on view at ASK for the duration of the month.
Reception for both exhibits will be held the first Saturday October 4, 5-8pm at ASK, 97 Broadway, Kingston, NY (in the Rondout area).
