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Feb 03 - Feb 28 2026 - 17 days left

The Painting Center is pleased to present Askew, a solo exhibition of oil paintings and works on paper by artist Scott Wixon. Wixon creates vibrant, layered abstract compositions that range from contemplative to surprising. The exhibition opens on Tuesday, February 3, and runs through Saturday, February 28, 2026. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 5, from 5 to 8 pm. Wixon’s singular visual vocabulary is instantly recognizable. Undulating shapes, colors, and patterns are in conversation with one another, creating a strong sense of play. The paintings develop through a responsive process, with each gesture answering an evolving composition. His confidently intuitive approach results in works that evoke a kaleidoscopic, living world. Wixon’s work is refreshing and distinctive, delighting the eye and igniting the imagination. This exhibition highlights selections of oil paintings and works on paper made in his New York studio, at his home on Cape Cod, and during artist residencies in Sardinia and Portugal. Wixon’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum in Woodstock, New York; the Evanston Art Center in Illinois; and in numerous galleries nationwide. His work is included in the Guggenheim Museum’s permanent collection, as well as in private and corporate collections. Wixon has participated in artist residencies at Nocefresa in Millis, Sardinia; L’Expressoir in Marnay-sur-Seine, France; the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice, Italy; Foundation Obras in Estremoz, Portugal; and the Cill Rialaig Project in Ballinskelligs, Ireland. Wixon received a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MFA from Yale University. Born on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Wixon has lived and worked in Tribeca since 1975. While energized by New York City, his deep connection to nature and the sea continually draws him back to Cape Cod. Extensive travel and sustained engagement with global art and culture have shaped his perspective, and these experiences continue to inform and enrich his work. For more information on the artist, visit: www.scott-wixon.com and @scottwixon.

Feb 03 - Feb 28 2026 - 17 days left

The Painting Center is pleased to present Sculpture. Homage to Brice Marden, a solo exhibition by Tony Moore in the Project Room. Tony Moore’s practice is concerned with the relationship of humanity and nature. He believes in an expanded concept of “Nature” which embodies all existence, both the seen and unseen, socio-political events, daily occurrences, as well as private intuitions that are made concrete through creative action.Hi s objects are places of remembrance where multiplicities of associations take place. Most recently these have been concerned with issues of the human condition. The exhibition opens on Tuesday, February 3, and runs through Saturday, February 28, 2026. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, February 5, from 5 to 8 pm. Within the solo exhibition, “Tony Moore: Sculpture. Homage to Brice Marden” we observe three large ceramic sculptures, each weighing approximately 180 lbs. which were wood-fired in his Japanese style Anagama kiln. While the rhythmically undulating clay surfaces may appear to be modelled by hand, they are actually made (beaten or paddled) from a forcefully compressed mound of wet clay by energetically striking their mass with a textured 4-foot piece of lumber. Just as a painting may be comprised of brush strokes, these sculptures are shaped by the displacement of their mass by rhythmically struck blows or strikes. In this way the artist responds to the shifting pile of clay as it is gradually transformed before his eyes and within his physical action around its perimeter. In this sense, its creation is an event within a certain moment of time. Everything that is channeled within this moment refers to the past, both of personal histories and archetypal precedents, the current moment of conception, emotional expression, and towards future aspiration. Although essentially abstract, or of abstracted topology (rocks, mountains, terrestrial landscapes or human contour), Moore construes them to be of spirit in nature. While titles evoke the memory of the celebrated artist Brice Marden, his long illness and eventual physical demise (death), the artist insists that this body of work is not about Brice Marden (who’s courage to keep painting within the face of impending death he considers “heroic”), but because of him. The artist therefore reinforces his own, and our own fortitude of will, to persevere, to advance our human lineage and to wrestle with this material and spiritual plane of existence, making manifest moments of truth. Tony Moore is an English-American sculptor and painter represented in international museum collections including the Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Greenville Museum, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Art Museum of the U. of Memphis and ASU Art Museum, US and the Yorkshire Museum and Derby Museum, UK. He received an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University and is the recipient of prestigious awards, including a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, CAPS Grant and Sally and Milton Avery Fellowship. In 1998, after 25 years of making sculptures and paintings in New York City, Moore relocated his home and studio to the scenic Hudson River Valley near Cold Spring, NY where on a mountain top property he built a spacious studio, gallery and Japanese style Anagama-Noborigama wood-fire kiln. His unique ceramic sculptures are fired in the kiln during weeklong communal events. For more information on the artist, visit: www.TonyMooreArt.com and @TonyMooreArt.