Eileen Murphy, The Trees Lean in Like Conspirators, 2024, oil on panel, 10 x 8 inches

As summer fades into fall, the tail end of the season pulls on our collective heartstrings — oh, how we’ll miss summer! Featuring mixed media works by six women artists, Understories at Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson is a ballad to soothe the soul during this annual period of seasonal transition. Eileen Murphy’s oil painting “The Trees Lean in Like Conspirators” (2024) glows with autumnal hues and glistening golden energy, while Rinal Parikh’s black and white mixed-media work on canvas “April Showers” (2021) holds the promise of pleasures yet to come. “Biomorphic Flourishes” (2023) by Allyson Levy is a lively free-floating green scene created with encaustic, poppyseed heads, dill seeds, and leaves that hum with vigor. Abstract expressionist works including Ragellah Rourke’s “Night Swim” (2024) and the colorful compositional chaos of Anne Francey’s “Joyful Pain” (2023) will charm the heart. Among the more curious works in this show is Annika Tucksmith’s “The Turkey in the Late-Afternoon” (2024). Featuring a lone bird beside a river, warming its rump by a blazing fire with an open cooler nearby, it induces a strangely wonderful end-of-summer feeling that whispers of the fall harvest on the horizon.

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