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Sep 04 - Oct 11 2025 - 26 days left

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce an exhibition of new abstract paintings by Deborah Zlotsky, Genealogies. This will be her sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. An opening reception will be held on September 11 from 6-8pm. Zlotsky's bold, new paintings build upon the graphic power of stripes. Stripes structure patterns, suggest cycles, and signify caution. They create order and grace. They also announce, in traditions of Western image-making, people who were marginalized, understood apart from mainstream culture. In Zlotsky’s paintings, stripes don't always behave. Regular rectangular shapes mutate into dimensional, biomorphic forms. Flat, rigid shapes blur and sometimes become animated with fictional gravity, invented light, and trompe l’oeil passages like strings, shadows, and fleshy parts. These shifts call into question one's perspective. What once appeared to be the background now pops into the foreground; what once felt weightless now presses down on a support structure; what was once hard-edged now softens into almost familiar, life-like forms. History manifests itself in her work through drips and smears, which act as records of time and wear. Zlotsky writes: "I’m interested in how history presses against the present and complicates how we understand both the present and the past. Abstraction provides a language of metaphor—as well as a sensory experience—for responding to the way we live on the surface of these continually accumulating pasts."

Sep 04 - Oct 11 2025 - 26 days left

Allyson Strafella has been drawing with a typewriter since 1992. She began drawing out of the need to communicate; to find her own language. hillsdale is a collection of drawings that reflect Strafella’s view of her surrounding landscape in Columbia County, NY. Using a typewriter as a drawing tool, Strafella builds up repetitive punctuation marks to create forms. Working with handmade pigmented paper provides a greater resource of color and scale; carbon and transfer paper are the primary medium used to imbed those marks into paper. Writing with a typewriter, a mechanized tool to keep up with her thoughts, she employs no rules of the written language. Strafella has, “developed marks that are my visual language: a drawing language ‘written’ by type, and a written language drawn as mark and form.” The typed images hover between the abstracted familiar, and the intimately far-away. Through the practice of drawing, she aims to clarify the complexities of the world she lives in.

Sep 11 - Oct 18 2025 - 33 days 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.