An exhibition of recent paintings and watercolors by Sylvia Plimack Mangold will open on September 8th at Alexander and Bonin.

For the past twenty years, Plimack Mangold has made the trees on her property in Washingtonville, NY her primary motif. Her approach to the trees is much like her earlier floor, tape and mirror paintings in its insistent visualization of real world elements that transcend subject matter as painted surfaces and existentialist records. Plimack Mangold creates her painted examinations of Maple and Pin Oak trees in recurring circumstances (tree, view and season). To allow for the closest conditions of observation the paintings are often made over two consecutive summers or winters and are set aside for the three seasons that occur between.

This exhibition will also include a group of watercolors of the Pin Oak. These newest watercolors are painted in grey, black and white – a tonal, non-photographic presentation of nature. Watercolor presents a wholly different challenge and result than oil paint and has been a consistent medium for Plimack Mangold since 1993.