"East Road, Ridgfield,
Vermont," 2001. Oil on canvas.
NEW YORK CITY - The David Findlay Galleries will present an
exhibition of oil paintings by Hannah Achtenberg. The show opens
on Wednesday, February 13, and runs through March 13.
Achtenberg creates brilliant landscape paintings with an emphasis
on the sky. Her paintings offer grand views of expertly depicted
cumulus clouds sailing over the spectacle of a pristine
countryside unfolding below.
Achtenberg's skies encompass much of the canvas, often as much as
three fourths of the painting. This is a style borrowed from the
Old Masters of Dutch landscape paint-ing. Rather than eclipsing
the landscapes, the dramatic skies serve instead to heigh-ten the
importance of the vista below, whether it is farmland or the arm
of a sandbar reaching into the sea.
Summers spent on the eastern shore of Long Island and visits to
the rural countryside of New England provide the subject matter
for her work. She currently resides in New York City.
David Findlay Galleries, 984 Madison Avenue, is open Monday
through Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm. For information,
212-249-2909.
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