Banner Exhibition: Renewal

The chosen works for “Renewal”, although quite different from one another, all communicate a sense of rebirth or resilience. I thought it was interesting to see how this theme could be interpreted through a variety of media and styles. The bold, expressive color of Antonio Alvarez’s “Diptych” takes the theme into the purely abstract realm while Thomas Sarrantonio uses a representational approach in his ethereal landscape, “Dawn”, which captures a rebirth we experience daily with a calming ocean sunrise. The flowers emerging from Meredith Morabito’s figurative sculpture, “A Beautiful Mind”, visualizes a more physiological renewal of mind, body, and spirit. Jackie Skryzynski’s botanical still life, “Tree of Heaven (Tondo)”, conveys the resilient power of Mother Nature and the cyclic renewal of lush greenery we experience each spring.

About the juror –

Lena Petersen is currently co-director of Carrie Haddad Gallery in Hudson, NY, where she represents a vast array of artists from the Hudson Valley. She curates and installs seven group shows per year and works one on one with art consultants, designers, and collectors to place artists’ work in prominent and private collections. She has also gathered curatorial and gallery experience at the Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery at SUNY Purchase, Imogen Holloway Gallery, formerly in Saugerties, NY, The Williams Center Gallery at Lafayette College in Easton, PA, and Gagosian Gallery.