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Sep 01 - Sep 26 2026 - 1 day left

The Painting Center is pleased to present Myths and Mummers, featuring new paintings and big head masks by Megan Marlatt in the Main Gallery. The exhibition will run from September 1 through September 26, 2026, with an opening reception on Thursday, September 10, from 5 to 8 pm. Stemming from her creative research into European pre-Lenten carnival culture and its relation to the spring equinox, Marlatt’s new work addresses fluctuating seasons and the challenge of climate change. Utilizing figures of folklore like Jack Frost, or personifications of the seasons like Persephone, Marlatt’s paintings position these deities prominently into the landscape to narrate the story of transformation and loss. Megan Marlatt was a recipient of a Fulbright Scholar Research Fellowship to Belgium in 2018, where she studied Belgian carnival culture and the painter James Ensor. She has won a Fellowship in Painting from the National Endowment for the Arts (1995), two Professional Artist Grants from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (2013, 2006), one from the Virginia Commission on the Arts (1996), and one from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts (1985). She has participated in numerous national and international solo and group exhibitions. Since 2013, Marlatt has been the founder and director of the artist collective “The Big Head Brigade,” a group that builds and performs in large papier-mâché heads. She resides in Virginia and is Professor Emerita at the University of Virginia. For more information on the artist, visit www.meganmarlattart.com and @meganmarlattart.

Sep 01 - Sep 26 2026 - 1 day left

The Painting Center is pleased to announce the solo exhibition Dreams in Action by Jane Zweibel in the Project Room. The exhibition will run from September 1 through September 26, 2026, with an opening reception on Thursday, September 10, from 5 to 8 pm. Known for paintings that push the boundaries of figuration and that investigate aspects of human experience and female identity, Zweibel’s canvases are characterized by vibrant color, distortion, a cartoon-like sensibility, and uncanny juxtapositions. The series Dreams in Action began during painting breakthroughs that occurred while Zweibel attended two artist residencies in 2024. Utilizing collages as points of departure, she begins each painting with a loose grid of abstract shapes and colors, followed by free-associative figurative imagery worked into the grid. The imagery is culled from a range of sources, including personal and collective experience, memory, psychology, mythology, and art history. The resulting paintings become non-linear narratives, like the scrambled chapters of a novel. The small-scale acrylic paintings in Dreams in Action are not portrayals of Zweibel’s own dreams but depictions of invented dream worlds: multiverses where boundaries between past and present, real and mythic, are indistinct. Throughout this body of work, Zweibel is interested in visualizing dream logic and in delivering the fantastical with the force of reality by merging fact and fiction. Dreams that occur during sleep are passive visions, in that they seem to “happen” to the dreamer. The dream states depicted in Zweibel’s painted microcosms are, by contrast, vividly active and alive. Jane Zweibel is an artist from New York City, currently living and working in Mexico City. Zweibel holds an MFA in Painting from Columbia University and a BA in Visual Art from Bennington College. She is the recipient of fellowships and residency awards from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the Bronx Museum Artist in the Marketplace Program, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Banff Centre for the Arts, among others. Zweibel has been awarded grants from the Puffin Foundation and Artist’s Fellowship, Inc., and was a finalist for the Tree of Life Foundation Grant. Her work has been reviewed in Art in America, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, and Fiberarts Magazine. Zweibel has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the US and abroad, including Baang and Burne Contemporary, New York; AIR Gallery, Brooklyn; Museum for Art and Culture, New Rochelle, New York; The Transit Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Leslie’s Art Gallery, Luxembourg; Chaffers Gallery, New Zealand; and Hashtag Gallery, Mexico City. For more information on the artist, visit www.jzweibel.com and @jane.zweibel.

Sep 29 - Oct 24 2026

The Painting Center is pleased to present Meet at the Ferris Wheel, a solo exhibition of new oil paintings by Kathleen Beausoleil in the Main Gallery. Centered on the American town fair, the exhibition of 20 oil paintings that explore how crowds form, how people connect through repeated encounters, and how shared rituals create a sense of belonging. The exhibition will run from September 29 through October 24, 2026, with an opening reception on Thursday, October 8, from 5 to 8 pm. Beausoleil’s interest in the fair is rooted in her own experience. Growing up in a small New Jersey town, she witnessed countless fairs each summer, where families and friends from neighboring small towns returned to the same places year after year. These gatherings became a ritual of togetherness. Through the simple act of showing up repeatedly, familiar faces reappeared, relationships deepened, and temporary fairgrounds became enduring sites of Community. Working primarily in oil on canvas and panel, Beausoleil paints the subtle choreography of the crowd: the spaces between figures, recurring gestures, patterns of movement, and invisible relationships that reveal how people organize themselves in public. The exhibition takes its title from the familiar invitation to meet at the Ferris wheel, which becomes a symbol of reunion, anticipation, and shared memory. Rather than documenting the spectacle of the fair, Meet at the Ferris Wheel considers the deeper meaning of gathering. The paintings suggest that belonging is created through repeated presence—by returning to the same places, recognizing one another, and participating in rituals that connect people across towns and generations. Kathleen Beausoleil lives and works in Fair Haven, New Jersey. Primarily working in oil paint, her work examines American rituals and the relationship between individual identity and collective experience. Beausoleil received a 2022 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and was a member of The Drawing Center’s Viewing Program. She has participated in artist residencies including ChaNorth, Cuttyhunk Island Artists’ Residency, ArtLab at Mountain Lake Biological Station (UVA), and the Artist Forests Community Program sponsored by the Holter Museum of Art and Helena National Forest. Beausoleil has exhibited at the Monmouth Museum, Susquehanna Art Museum, Peto Museum, Noyes Arts Garage, and The Painting Center in New York. Her work is held in the permanent collections of Fidelity Investments, the Missoula Art Museum, and the Art Institute of Middlesex County, as well as numerous private collections. She received her BFA, cum laude, from Syracuse University. For more information on the artist, visit: www.kathleenbeausoleil.com and @kathleenbeausoleil.

Sep 29 - Oct 24 2026

The Painting Center is pleased to present Nesting Rituals, a solo exhibition of oil paintings by artist Ellen Starr Lyon in the Project Room. The exhibition will run from September 29 through October 24, 2026, with an opening reception on Thursday, October 8, from 5 to 8 pm. This exhibition continues Lyon’s exploration of life transitions with Nesting Rituals, as in previous coming-of-age portraits of her children. This body of work speaks to her current overlapping transitions of relocation to New York State from the Midwest and to what is known colloquially as an empty nester. What began as an obvious metaphor of nests and eggs became an investigation of more universal themes of vulnerability, fragility, and the inherent strength in embracing both. The eggs began to symbolize the ideas we hold onto—potential that may never come to fruition. Lyon explores what it means to identify as a mother and how to welcome new identities. What restrictive narratives about ourselves do we cling to? Are we stopping at these crossroads to question them? Lyon has long used self-portraiture to explore and portray her ever-changing roles of woman, wife, and mother; each a snapshot in time, a nod to ancient artistic practice, a path to acceptance. She continues her use of the self, creating visual journal entries of these emotional transitions. Included in Nesting Rituals are images of temporary spaces, portraits of her children, and select works from Lyon’s Altar series which speak to various aspects of nesting, of creating personal space, and collecting memories wherever one goes. Lyon lives and works in Upstate New York. She earned a BFA in Painting and BA in Art History from Indiana University. Lyon has participated in shows nationally and internationally including: Being Human at The Painting Center, NYC (NY); Reflections of Us at Warner’s Contemporary, Brooklyn (NY); various group shows at Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati (OH); Converge at the Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia (PA); Pandemic at the Sol Art Gallery, Dublin (Ireland); FiKVA MiniARTures at WG Gallery, Dordrecht (The Netherlands); Delphian Gallery, London (UK), and CONTEXT Miami Art Fair at 33 Contemporary Gallery, Palm Beach (FL). She has been published in Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine, Beautiful Bizarre, New Visionary magazine, and American Art magazine. Her paintings have been featured online on sites such as Hyperallergic, Bored Panda, and Buzzfeed. Lyon was invited to The Pouch Cove Artist Residency, Newfoundland, Canada, in 2024. She has work in the permanent collection of the Evansville Museum, University of California Irvine, Indiana University Bloomington, the Igleheart Foundation, and the Peregrine Collection of the Lunar Codex. For more information about the artist, visit: www.ellenstarrlyon.com and @ellenstarrlyon.