For nearly 60 years, Murray Hochman has explored the possibilities of light, color, geometry and gesture, using lacquer spray paints and solvents to build subtle, richly layered surfaces on canvas and paper. The paper pieces in this series, called Spacescapes, were intended to be quick studies for larger works. But they soon became objects of fascination in themselves, through the seduction and interaction of color and luminous lacquer surfaces that shift with the light. 

Catherine Howe paints luminous botanical based works that shift in color, hue and intensity as one moves in front of them. Plant forms are embodied in reflective materials such as iridescent mineral pigments, metal leaf and brushstrokes made of tiny glass beads; mediums that project the solid, objective world of nature into the ineffable, ethereal, realm of the spirit, where abstraction is not apart from representation, merely a heightening of its expressive power. Howe has exhibited widely for over 30 years and moved her studio practice to the Hudson Valley in 2015.