Water

Paintings by Deborah Freedman and Christie Scheele with photography by Susan Wides

2007 Aug 17 - Sep 29

Opening Reception for the Artists Saturday, Aug 18, 5 - 7 p.m.

SoHo based painter and printmaker, Deborah Freedman is new to Chace-Randall Gallery, but not the Catskills. Her work is inspired and informed by the landscape of the lower Catskills, specifically surrounding the Ashokan Reservoir. Freedman works in oils, as well as making monoprints and etchings--creating work that is both highly emotional and reverential-exposing the changes fermenting in the natural world. Her exhibition history includes The Amos Eno and Lott galleries, New York City, Paul Kuhn Gallery in Calgary, Canada and Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. She is the recipient of a MacDowell Colony Fellowship and was invited as Guest Artist in Bob Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop, New York City.

A favorite among Chace-Randall Gallery patrons, Christie Scheele is a landscape painter whose primary influences are Rothko and Louise Nevelson, Scheele renders work that is minimalist, yet complex. "It strikes me that a reward of artistic maturity is that one can increase complexity, bringing more and more into a work, keeping all the balls in the air. I can have my delicious, meditative painting process, and also let my mind romp through art history, without the result looking disconnected," says the artist. Scheele has exhibited in numerous venues throughout the East, including DFN Gallery, NYC; Craven Gallery, Martha's Vineyard; and Carrie Haddad, Hudson, NY. She is collected by Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz; American Airlines, NYC, and Kelsey Grammer, Malibu, CA, among others.

Again new to Chace-Randall, New York City photographer Susan Wides brings with her fabulous water imagery, quite an impressive resume. Her exhibitions include the Kim Foster gallery, NYC, The Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ, Center for Photography, Woodstock, Bronx Museum of Fine Art, and the Wessel O'Connor Gallery, Brooklyn, curated by Vince Aletti, among many others. Her work is collected by the Brooklyn Museum, Museum of the City of New York, International Center for Photography, NYC, the New York Public Library and The Art Museum, Princeton University, among others. On exhibit are works from her Mobile Views series: "This work utilizes a large format view camera. By manipulating its swings and tilts, I create distortions that explore subtle relationships between vision and the mind's eye alluding to meditation, sensuous experience, and the processes of remembering and forgetting," says Wides.

The Chace-Randall Gallery is located at 49 Main Street, Andes, NY. Summer gallery hours: Thursday - Sunday and Holiday Mondays 11-5; and by appointment.