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Transcendent Turbulence: A Quartet of Women Artists Bring Refracted Natural Views to Warren Street

Posted on Fri,Mar 1, 2024Fri,Mar 1, 2024 by Ben Rendich
Susan Eley Fine Art gallery on Warren Street in Hudson

A couple weekends ago, I had the delight of visiting two galleries on Warren Street – both featuring women artists who offer sustained yet refracted views of nature in their work.

The first of these galleries, Susan Eley Fine Art, presents Scenes of Ethereality – which is the second half of its two-part wintertime exhibition titled “Landscapes of Transcendence”. Indeed, the name is apt, as each of the three photographers on display uses long exposures to subvert her medium’s temporal limitations.

Source (2007), by Heather Boose Weiss

Heather Boose Weiss captures serene yet elusive black-and-white images that contemplate the parameters of a “moment.” Evocative of ancient hieroglyphics as well as Ansel Adams, these lush, glamorous photographs linger on natural glory while inflecting organic entities – like a waterfall or a constellation – with a selective, patient gaze.

The glittery, lucent photography of Leah Oates harmonizes perfectly with the elusive black and white compositions of Heather Boose Weiss

Furthermore, by putting her own presence before the lens – be it through manipulated sediment, as in Navajo Sand, or her own shadow, as in Untitled (Sedona) – Boose Weiss invites the viewer to consider how human interactions might harmonize with the earth, accentuating its grace.

Photographer Carolyn Monastra uses long exposures to explore the mythical qualities of forests

Her objectives are echoed by Carolyn Monastra in a series of color prints, which similarly use long exposures to break up and re-synthesize our relationship to trees and sky. Created with the intention of exploring forests’ “mythical” qualities, Monastra’s photographs are nonetheless distinctly modern – often resembling the midpoint between two dissolving frames in a movie. 

In particular, her lovely, dark and deep series revels in a kind of watery juxtaposition, each piece layering fractions of the same twilight scene into a haunting vision of a retiring Arcadia. Staring at her work, you feel caught in the crosshairs of time; there’s a foreboding mysticism to these images that is also somehow soothing.

Susan Eley and Carolyn Monastra

If Monastra’s long exposures are subdued by dusk, however, Leah Oates’ startle with their flecks of light. Her series, titled Transitory Space, focuses on pockets of life found in New York’s Prospect Park and Jamaica Bay. A pond of lilies, an arching bough of bright green leaves – these are determinedly optimistic images that sing with the thrill (familiar to any New Yorker) of a glimpsed patch of sky, or of a verdant canopy during a stroll through the park. 

And while Oates’ collection of topiary-centric photographs constitute the bulk of her work at Susan Eley, there are also a few pieces that harbor a more glittery, lucent quality. Informally referred to as her “dot” series, these photographs by Oates dazzle with speckled sunlight on lakes or wetlands – and they harmonize beautifully with Boose Weiss’ Light on Water, which punctuates the show.

Taken together, these three artists showcase a remarkably discerning yet sensual regard for earthen beauty. And if one walks two blocks west, arriving at the doorstep of Pamela Salisbury Gallery, there is yet another artist whose work deepens our understanding of how one might relate to nature’s changeable qualities.

Ninety-four year old Lois Dickson paints charming still lifes and landscapes that betray an emotional turbulence

This fourth artist is ninety-four-year-old Lois Dickson – a prolific, spirited painter whose current show, Everyone Loves a Sunset, moves away from the abstract-expressionist leanings of her prior output in favor of a more figurative, yet deconstructive style. 

Consisting entirely of new work, the exhibition features still lifes and “landscapes” that undulate with an underlying grid pattern. According to Dickson, she’s always used a grid to plan and guide her past paintings – but here, flowers and trees sit neither atop nor underneath this grid. Indeed, they almost coexist, so that at times you wonder which came first: foundation, or subject?

Lois Dickson – Drama. 2024

The result is at once thoroughly charming and suggestive of emotional turbulence; it’s a kind of elated mourning, in which rapturous flora doubles as gestural self-portraiture. There is grief in Dickson’s work, an expressive, whimsical relationship with sorrow that bespeaks many years of encountering change, both in nature and in oneself.

Lois Dickson. Tree and Fog. 2024

If you’re itching for spring, and are willing to dwell on the existential disruptiveness that comes with new life, these are two shows for you. The works of Heather Boose Weiss, Carolyn Monastra, Leah Oates, and Lois Dickson are all in conversation with the organic place whence we came; how lovely, how stimulating to encounter these artists in conversation with each other. 

Lois Dickson: Everyone Loves a Sunset closes this Sunday, March 3 at Pamela Salisbury Gallery. It’s open all weekend from 11AM to 5PM. Learn more here.

And Scenes of Ethereality will be at Susan Eley Fine Art in Hudson Thursday through Monday, 11AM to 5PM, until March 24. Visit the gallery’s website here.

Ben Rendich is a filmmaker and writer. He’s in pre-production on his first feature, Sweet Confusion, and has a blog where he writes movie reviews and essays called Reflections on a Silver Screen. He lives in Catskill.

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