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Apr 02 - May 09 2026 - 6 days left

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce Pattern of a Pattern, an exhibition of new mixed media works on paper by Jacquelyn Strycker. This will be her first solo exhibition with the gallery. A reception will be held on April 9th, 6-8pm. Strycker’s practice explores the relationship between decoration and function, and the possibilities of material transformation through handicraft. She creates ornate collages that move between drawing, printmaking, and textile construction. Strycker begins by hand-drawing patterns and quilt squares. Using a risograph duplicator, she prints scans of her drawings on fabric and fiber-based papers. The risographs are then cut, collaged, folded, and sewn together in a process the artist likens to quilting. Strycker notes that the choice to use an outdated office machine makes her process “absurdly inefficient, and that inefficiency is part of the point.” Strycker’s visual language references functional textiles like quilts, rugs and tapestries; however, their materiality resists function. The constructions she forms range from two-dimensional to sculptural. They are decorative, yet demand the same labor-intensive processes as the functional forms that inspire them, emphasizing the tension between utility and ornament. She finds humor in the “stubbornness of labor-intensive work.” The accumulation of incidental marks – misaligned registrations, vestiges of a fold, haphazard stitches – becomes evidence of the involved process. A multitude of patterns becomes the predominant motif, building repetition across the surface and emphasizing the act of making and re-making. In the artist’s own words, “A pattern of a pattern is not a lesser thing. It is its own record of having been made, and made again.”

Apr 02 - May 09 2026 - 6 days left

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce The Arboreal Life, an exhibition of new paintings by Katie DeGroot. DeGroot’s work transforms trees into expressive figures, staging them in scenes that reflect human relationships with nuance and humor. This will be her third solo exhibition with the gallery. A reception will be held on April 9th from 6-8 PM. DeGroot paints trees as individuals. Each is marked with scars, growths, knots, and kinks, revealing their uniqueness and individual histories. In the artist’s own words, “Trees grow to survive, they adapt to their given environment, producing oddly shaped limbs as they become contortionists to get to sunlight…They grow in context to each other and their neighbors, adapting as best they can to the situation they find themselves in. In many ways, they are similar to us, part of a larger community.” DeGroot anthropomorphizes her muses, imagining them in scenes as families, couples, cocktail parties, and individually as portraits. The branches, collected on frequent hikes, are arranged to suggest interaction. Each limb is painted from life at scale, giving it a distinct physical presence. Some are intertwined; others lean into one another or stand parallel, as if at attention. DeGroot captures personality while implying narrative. Titles like “Family Matters” act as gentle prompts, framing the scene and inviting a human reading, often with a touch of humor. These portraits are not realistic depictions but instead quirky interpretations that play with color, pattern, and stylization. She immortalizes their colors, textures, and the moss and fungi that adorn them as they begin to decay. One branch will be depicted over and over again and, much like us, its aging can be traced as its colors fade and its shape changes. The verticality of her subjects, combined with their meticulously patterned facades, creates a rhythm that enlivens each composition.

Apr 09 - May 16 2026 - 13 days left

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Anthony Falcetta. Falcetta’s abstractions center on color, surface and process, where what appears as form gives way to evidence of its making. The exhibition title Understories reflects this approach, evoking the forest floor and its accumulated layers. This is his second solo exhibition with the gallery. A reception for the artist will be held on April 9th from 6-8pm. Drawing from his surroundings, Falcetta uses color and material to suggest both natural and built environments. Color relationships recall familiar spatial conditions, like an object resting on a surface or a form set against the sky, without becoming literal. Deep, saturated tones contrast with brighter passages of color, while shifts between warm and cool create depth. High-key accents activate the surface. Working with a combination of acrylic paint, spray paint and gypsum compound, he builds and textures the surface to reinforce these contrasts. Each painting accumulates layers of revision where marks are erased, covered, and reworked over time. Driven by a “desire for structure,” Falcetta builds toward balance only to disrupt them, using what remains to inform the next move. The surfaces allow the viewer to trace the process of creation, as the artist notes “finished surfaces always hint at those deeper layers.” He further describes the work as one in which “time gets bent and shuffled, layers interlock and obscure each other, and edges become inconclusive,” reflecting his translation of observed environments into abstraction.

Apr 09 - May 16 2026 - 13 days left

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce Sea Violet, an exhibition of new paintings by Tess Michalik. Her work explores material and its relationship to gesture. This is her first solo exhibition with the gallery. A reception for the artist will be held on April 9th from 6-8pm. Michalik’s floral paintings move between abstraction and naturalism, drawing on Romanticism, Abstract Expressionism, and 18th-century decorative patterns and textiles. Working alla prima, forms emerge through quick, voluminous layers of impasto, with individual marks remaining distinct as single daubs of paint transform into petals and leaves. Shaped by touch rather than description, the paintings depict flowers in various states of bloom, what the artist describes as the “zenith of their short-lived existence.” The flowers are set against flat, often single-color grounds that recall wallpaper or fabric. These backgrounds create stage-like spaces where the subject hovers rather than settles into depth. In some paintings a visible smear interrupts this flatness, pulling gesture across the surface and complicating the distinction between figure and ground. Michalik’s paintings hold both pleasure and transience in view, evoking a quiet memento mori. As she writes, “They are small protestations to the drudgery of the mundane and the pain of existence. These are little love letters to the warm days of ecstasy that are captured by the autumn bouquet or the first blooming of the spring crocus, the first bit of purple to pop out of the snow.”

May 14 - Jun 20 2026

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce Wonder, an exhibition of new paintings by Deborah Dancy. This will be her third solo exhibition with the gallery and a reception will be held on May 21st from 6-8 PM. In these new paintings by Deborah Dancy, layers of poured paint accumulate through gravity, and chance, reflecting the tension between control and accident. The palettes are earthy, muted and somehow resolve into vague landscapes. As always in Dancy’s paintings, passages of serene elegance collide with bold contrast, creating unexpected tension. As she says, “These paintings continue my fascination with ephemerality and the sensorial. One significant and distinguishing feature in this current body of work is the absence of brushwork, now replaced by layers of poured paint. Its elimination signals a shift in vision and embraces a process that encourages unpredictability and chance. Making these paintings became a performative dance in which play and accident are celebrated as something meaningful takes shape. The spirit of wonder is an offering of surprise and delight.” Deborah Dancy earned her BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University and a MFA and MS from Illinois State University. She is the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Yaddo Fellow, and a National Endowment of the Arts NEFA award.Her work is in numerous public and private collections including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; The High Museum, Atlanta, GA; The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; 21C Museum, The Baltimore Museum, MD; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Birmingham Museum of Art, AL; The Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, TN; The Detroit Institute of Art, MI; The Boston Museum of Fine Art, MA; The Montgomery Museum of Art, LA; The Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; Grinnell College, IA; Oberlin College Museum of Art, OH; and The United States Embassy in Harare, Zimbabwe.

May 14 - Jun 20 2026

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in collaboration with BravinLee Programs is pleased to announce Drawings from a Room, an exhibition of new works on paper by Charles Ritchie. This will be his first solo exhibition with the gallery and a reception will be held on May 21st, 6-8pm. Charles Ritchie’s intimate watercolor and ink drawings are the result of sustained attention to his immediate surroundings: details of his neighbors' homes and yards, and vignettes of his lived-in rooms. For more than forty years, his suburban Maryland neighborhood has been his muse, though light remains his essential subject. Many of these drawings take shape over the course of many years. Ritchie explains,"My inspirations come in a flash and I hope to convey that initial excitement. When I begin to work, I am often dependent on the ephemeral: a slant of light, a certain season, a subject in a temporary state. When the state passes, I often put the work aside until it reappears. However, by the time the drawing is finished, the site may be vastly different than when I started; trees have come down, houses have new additions, etc. The exhibited work is an abstracted accumulation of many different experiences and events." Ritchie’s drawings move beyond what a camera can offer. His respect for detail is patient and precise. The ordinariness of the everyday becomes suffused with tenderness. Vast amounts of information is contained in these small works, and their intimate scale invites the viewer to look closely, to explore the details of spaces familiar and transformed. It is Ritchie’s careful attention, and then our own, that transforms the ordinary into something of wonder. Charles Ritchie has exhibited his watercolor and ink drawings in public and private galleries throughout the United States and Asia. His works are in such prestigious collections as the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Boston Public Library, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, and the Yale University Art Gallery. The work is in many private collections such as the Cartin Collection and the Louis-Dreyfus Collection. https://vimeo.com/1004168821

May 21 - Jun 27 2026

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition of new paintings by Mary Didoardo titled Short Story. This is her third solo exhibition with the gallery. A reception for the artist will be held on May 21st from 6-8pm. Mary Didoardo builds her oil paintings on panel in accumulated layers, then excavates them. After several painted passages, she covers the surface with packaging tape and carries a gestural, looping, and often continuous line across it. The line is not a single passage but is often wiped away and redrawn until the gesture “feels right.” Only then is it cut, slowly and deliberately, as she follows that path with an X-Acto knife, lifting the tape and removing the line from the surface. The resulting channel is painted, the surface covered again, and the process repeated. When all of the tape is finally removed, flakes of paint lift with it, revealing earlier colors sealed beneath and exposing the full history of the painting. As the artist notes, “ This process integrates and embeds the line and keeps it from being simply a design element. It draws the space. The many stages are visible and are there for the viewer to read. Consistent in most of these paintings is the underlying evidence of previous stages of "failed paintings" rising to the surface through layers built up, scraped down, enriching the final version.”In the resulting compositions, fields of bold color are activated by generous, looping lines that hover between control and release. The lines read as instinctive, but are in fact adjusted, erased, and painstakingly cut into place. The work meanders at the edge of chaos, then settles into balance. That tension between intuition and labor, gesture and incision, is held in the physical presence of the surface. Mary Didoardo lives and works in Long Island City. She received her BFA in Art Education from Pratt Institute where she studied Sculpture and Painting. Her work has been exhibited extensively in New York, including at the Strohl Art Gallery at Chautauqua Institution, White Columns, the C.G Jung Foundation, and the Painting Center. She is a recipient of the Enrico Donati Foundation Grant and a resident at the Millay Colony.

May 21 - Jun 27 2026

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition of paintings by D. Jack Solomon titled ALL IN GOOD TIME. This is his first solo exhibition with the gallery and a reception will be held on May 21st from 6-8pm. Solomon's newest paintings are complex, richly colored geometric abstractions with a debt to Kandinsky and the Bauhaus. His traditional constructive sensibility is infused with personality and wit. Lines and circles create rhythm and movement, while arbitrary geometric forms such as checkered spheres, striped ovals, and architectural fragments float in and out of the canvas, creating visual depth without illusionistic space. Many of these forms seem to develop personalities, conversing across the canvas in a geometric language all their own. D. Jack Solomon has shown at numerous galleries nationally and internationally including Rolf Nelson Gallery, LA; Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington DC; James Yu Gallery, NYC; Pam Adler Galleries, NYC; and at Gallerie Taksu, KL, Malaysia. He has also exhibited widely in the Upstate New York and Berkshire regions including at John Davis Gallery, Hudson NY; AD-D Gallery, Hudson NY; and Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY; ThompsonGiroux, Chatham, NY; Carrie Chen Gallery, Great Barrington, MA; The Albany Center Galleries, Albany, NY; 68 Prince Street, Kingston NY; and Lockwood Gallery, Kingston NY. Solomon is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist grant and the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant for painting. He received his MA in painting from San Francisco State University. At 92 years of age Solomon is working in the studio most days. He resides in Hudson NY with his wife, painter, Jeanette Fintz.