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    July 17 - 21

    60 South Front Street
    Hudson, New York 12534
     
     The inaugural edition will take place in Hudson at The Caboose during Upstate Art Week, July 17 – 21
    Bringing together a select group of New York City galleries: Abri Mars, Dutton, Franklin Parrasch, and Post Times.
  • Lauriston Avery (b. 1968, Norwich, CT), lives and works in New York, having studied at the San Francisco Art Institute,... Lauriston Avery (b. 1968, Norwich, CT), lives and works in New York, having studied at the San Francisco Art Institute,...
    Lauriston Avery
    (b. 1968, Norwich, CT), lives and works in New York, having studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, he received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1990. Avery’s selected solo exhibitions include Full Moon, Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY; Deaf Bats Blind Shepards, Wildpalms, Düsseldorf, Germany; and To be Continued, The Hogar Collection, Brooklyn, NY. Recent group exhibitions include Embers, Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY; Magical Operations, Wildpalms, Düsseldorf, Germany; Zip City, Left Field Gallery, Los Osos, CA; Walk the Line, Platform Project Space, Brooklyn, NY; Big Ringer, Andrew Edlin Gallery, NY; Come a Little Closer, DC Moore, NY; and After the End, NADA. His work has been featured at the Bridge Art Fair, Miami; NEXT Art Fair, Chicago; Untitled Art Fair, Miami; and NADA, New York.
  • Adam Fowler
    (American, b. 1979)
  • Colin Brant (b. 1965, Arcata, California) Brant makes oil paintings on canvas, in a range of sizes from handheld to...
    Colin Brant 
    (b. 1965, Arcata, California) 
     
    Brant makes oil paintings on canvas, in a range of sizes from handheld to the scale of his outstretched arms. Beginning with thin washes of color, the pigment deposits in the grooves of the weave and emphasizes the texture of the fabric. Using reference materials such as linen postcards and 19 th century colorized stereoscope images, the layered colors are reminiscent of these old printing methods. Overlapping tones of dusty pinks and violets tinged with orange suggest things seen through grainy atmospheric distance as well as across the distance of time. Scumbled marks of thicker paint over these thinner layers coalesce into images. Brant isinspired by artists who use representation as a starting point for the imagination to wander, including Post Impressionists like Pierre Bonnard, early American self-taught artists, and Chinese landscape painters.

    Although landscape is a recuring motif, there are a variety of subjects that he paints including animals, minerals, and celestial phenomenon. A certain range in the Canadian Rockies has been the subject of a series of paintings. Using a variety of vintage postcards which show the range from slightly different angles with different light and color situations, the paintings become a study of mutability and subjectivity. No matter the subject, things are constantly in flux or shifting between one state and another. Mountains fracture and dissolve in light, animals appear then vanish, reflections turn a landscape upside down, everything is in transformation and slipping between the recognizable and fantastical. Whether the subject is plankton or a vast fjord, the painting becomes a meditative exploration of how he sees and understands the natural world.
  • Formed out of a desire to connect with audiences outside of the traditional art fair model, Loading… embraces a collaborative spirit and is organized by the galleries themselves. It is an improvisational and casual model that offers dealers a different environment to open a dialogue about process and ideas, and show work they deeply believe in without the overwhelming pressure of an expensive booth.
     
    Upstate Art Week felt like the perfect time to launch, as it is characterized by a certain openness and curiosity, with art lovers exploring the various offerings using a hand-drawn map as their guide. Located across the street from the Hudson train station, The Caboose provides an inviting atmosphere for viewers with its soaring wood-beamed ceilings and expansive windows.
     
    Free and open to the public, Loading… will also host a series of conversations and artist-talks throughout the week. The week will open to VIP guests at 11am on July 17 and continue through July 21, 11am-7pm, with a celebratory launch party on Saturday night, from 7-10pm.
     
    Please visit www.loadingart.com for the full schedule and details.