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Sep 11 - Oct 18 2025 - 1 day left

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Tamar Zinn titled, Standing in the stream. This is her eighth solo exhibition with the gallery. An artist reception will be held on September 11th from 6-8pm and an artist talk will take place Saturday, October 4 at 4pm. Zinn’s atmospheric abstractions emerge from an interest in capturing the transitory nature of the human experience. She writes, “The world we move through is perpetually shifting – light, atmosphere, and color can be felt and seen but they are not fixed." The paintings offer a liminal, in between space through which she aims to evoke sensations and elicit an emotive visual experience. While suggestive of the natural world, her paintings are defined by their ambiguity. She works in two modes, painting and drawing. For Zinn drawing is a dynamic, visceral practice where energized movements are transformed into line and compositions develop rapidly. Painting is a slower more reflective experience where in gesture and color appear and disappear through layers of process. Gestural lines are present in both and connect to her experience of making. She thinks of gesture as emerging from breath, traveling through her arm and onto the surface.

Oct 16 - Dec 06 2025 - 50 days left

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce Everyday Improvisations, an exhibition of new abstract paintings by Fran Shalom. This will be her fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. An opening reception will be held on October 23 from 6-8pm. Quirky, ambiguous figures inhabit Fran Shalom’s paintings. Their bright, cartoony colors and buoyant forms fill each composition with playful energy. Her shapes, while fully abstract, reference the body and recognizable objects. She thinks of them as, “ambiguous characters who inhabit my studio keeping me company and often engaging in silent conversation.” Animated and boisterous Shalom’s characters are evocative of the familiar but remain just out of reach. A jaunty line meanders and encircles Shalom’s unruly shapes. Central forms and pared-down backgrounds echo icons. She gravitates to simple shapes and hard edges but builds depth through textured surfaces. Painting improvisationally, she adds and subtracts - building, wiping, scraping, and reshaping. This revealing and covering creates layered imagery. In many works, fields of rich color are interrupted by traces of past hues and ghosts of earlier forms.

Oct 23 - Dec 06 2025

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition of new paintings by Erin O’Brien titled, Room Tone. This is her second solo exhibition with the gallery and an artist reception will be held on October 23rd from 6-8pm. Erin O’Brien culls the forms in her tender abstract paintings from personal photographs and sketches. Through simple line drawings, she extracts compositions from the silhouettes of, and spaces between, objects or people in these mementos. The paintings carry a poignancy that arises from her closeness to the subject. They serve to reaffirm the importance of these connections - and of the photographs and sketches that hold them. She makes by hand a physical, precious version, yet abstracts it to maintain privacy and intimacy. She is interested in what is revealed and concealed, absent and present, allowing for multiple meanings and a sense of uncertainty. The title of the exhibition further underscores this concern: “Room Tone is taken from the world of film and video production and refers to the sound of a room when everyone in it is still and silent. The phrase refers to what is present within a perceived absence.” The palettes are improvised. One color impacts her choice for the next as she considers how shape, color, and the linen surface interact. For O’Brien, flat colors become both presence and void; with the right combination of colors, a single shape can become both. Lines and shapes are placed thoughtfully, connecting, defining, breaking, and enveloping each other. Both hard edges and areas of dissipating color coexist, creating a tense, evocative energy that draws the viewer in.