Strange and fanciful interiors and architectural locales are the curatorial thread of If These Walls Could Talk at Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, featuring works by five artists. A series of semi-surrealist paintings by Kathryn Freeman depict mystical scenes between humans and animals, including “Living with Goats” (2023), which features a relaxed woman in a purple dress atop a fleshy pink lounge chair in a well-appointed room where bucks roam freely and a stray goose sails above. In “Summer’s End I” (2024) by Brigid Kennedy, sharply layered color reminiscent of both Japanese woodcuts and Pop Art reveals a sultry vision of a woman and her digital device. The late Lionel Gilbert’s “Still Life with Blue Pitcher” (c. 1960) is a handsome cubist-modernist masterpiece of autumnal abstract shapes, while Judith Wyer’s “Two Hats” (2023) captures a poignant contemporary moment between two figures: a White man frozen in a painting in a museum, and a Black man looking into that portrait, seen from some distance.

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