Beyond the Horizon: Interpretations of the Landscape
February 18-June 16, 2024
Parrish Art Museum Permanent Collection for role as Assistant Curator
Spanning mural-sized representational oil paintings, expressionistic watercolors and pastel drawings, and intimate mixed-media abstractions, Beyond the Horizon took viewers on a journey through visual styles and thematic experiences of the landscape. Featured women artists from the Parrish Art Museum’s permanent collection capture the essence and tone of the environment through their own unique visual language.
Large-scale works by Renate Aller, April Gornik, and Jane Wilson will demonstrated how these women artists masterfully composed mural-sized works, countering the common association of large-scale with the masculine. A selection of paintings by Jennifer Bartlett, Nell Blaine, Edith Prellwitz, Susan Vecsey, and Jane Wilson expanded techniques to include expressionistic mark-making and atmospheric washes of color across meadows, forests, and mountain ranges. Collages, relief works, and textured surfaces by Darlene Charneco, Sandi Haber Fifield, Laurie Lambrecht, and Michelle Stuart celebrated abstraction and conceptual interpretations of the land and nature. Throughout the galleries, visitors were immersed in the landscape and experience how each artist transforms their view of the natural world.
Featured Artists: Renate Aller, Jennifer Bartlett, Nell Blaine, Diana Chang, Darlene Charneco, Helen Frankenthaler, Sandi Haber Fifield, Jane Freilicher, Margaret Garrett, Tria Giovan, April Gornik, Linda Hackett, Erica-Lynn Huberty, Elaine de Kooning, Laurie Lambrech, Susan Meisel, Zella de Milhau, Mary Nimmo Moran, Alaleh Ostad, Ethel Paxson, Ellen Phelan, Edith Prellwitz, Michelle Stuart, Susan Vecsey, Jane Wilson.
Exhibition Support: The Parrish Art Museum’s programs are made possible, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and by the property taxpayers from the Southampton School District and the Tuckahoe Common School District.
