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Carol Flaitz Michael Gaydos Carla Goldberg Tom Holmes Gary Jacketti Kirsten Lyon Grey Zeien Lisa Zukowski

Franklin 54 Gallery + Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of 8 contemporary artists from the Hudson Valley. One thinks of Hudson Valley artists of the past as the traditional landscape painters or of the Hudson River School- not so here. These artists are innovative, fresh and modern in their use of materials and ideas representing some of the best works in the area. They are a cohesive group in that they are all striving to push the process in their works.

Carol Flaitz makes rich, deep, dark paintings of encaustic and mixed media on wood panels. Inspired by science, Fissure III is a void of earth with a beautiful luminous area pulling it apart in the middle making the gold material shimmer in doing so. It is strong and handsome.

Carla Goldberg immerses us into the ocean with her Goddess series. Layers of acrylic, oil, ink and resin on canvas create a layering atmosphere for these beauties as they swirl within the space. Tom Holmes works with water, ice and stone -“Disgrace” is a large digital abstract image on canvas of a small bit of ice that was frozen overnight outside and then smashed to a piece of sand stone, flat. The melting process was immediately photographed after the ice was applied to the piece of sand stone. There are no pigments, no alterations. The colors are all natural reflected from the natural sand stone, water and melting ice “chip”.

Kirsten Lyon’s stoneware stars are beautiful on their own but she has taken it a step further and placed them in glass canisters with magnets that make the water swirl and the stars magically spin. Grey Zeien wonderful pieces dance with imagery that plays off one another – shapes and colors fit together, float, fly against others that are enclosed and still. Reminding us of Klee’s work they are fanciful and innocent.

Also included in the show is Gary Jacketti’s rich lush textural mixed media piece on wood panels making a subtle transition from light to dark; Michael Gaydos painterly Child’s Pose figure work and Lisa Zukowski’s burlap works on canvas.