Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Moonrise in the Mountains, 2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches

Art history displays an obsession with the dynamics of light. Featuring five artists, Unexpected Light at Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson is a jubilee of light: Luminous, rich, shiny, glossy, glowing, and polished paintings reflect the beaming heart of this exhibition. The encaustic “Gray Clouds” (2024) by Leigh Palmer, a dreamy landscape that breathes with warm fresh air, appears to be in direct communication with the atmospheric ambiance of “6194 Salem” (2024), a richly hued oil-on-linen landscape by the seasoned plein-air painter Harry Orlyk. David Dew Bruner’s “Sheets II” (2024), a lush archival pigment print of white bed sheets in a Renaissance revival frame, captures the implied intimacy of an otherwise prosaic moment. “Moonrise in the Mountains” (2024) by Jane Bloodgood-Abrams follows in the tradition of the Hudson River School — it features a radiant full moon high above a landscape that bathes everything below in a warm transcendent light.

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