About the Artists

SHARI ABRAMSON creates abstract paintings in oil on canvas that are informed by nature and filled with light. Colorful, soft-edge shapes float on a white ground, suggesting active elements of nature against an open sky. There is a somewhat Zen-like use of light. View Works »

DEBORAH BLACK uses acrylic on heavy paper mounted on canvas. Although abstract in approach, there is definitive suggestion of trees, water, and pathways. Loosely painted textural blue, green, and purple images emerge against a light sky. View Works »

PRISCILLA BOWDEN draws from the East End landscape, often preserving on canvas locations now radically altered by building development. Her approach to color is soft and subtle. In some of these paintings, forsythia brings the light of spring to this exhibition. View Works »

ROBERT DASH has enjoyed a long career moving between representational imagery and abstraction. In his Sagg Main paintings in acrylic on canvas, he has taken one area of this tree-lined street to create a series through use of color and variation of form against a white ground, giving a dimensional quality to the works. View Works »

CORNELIA FOSS is best known for her landscape paintings, but flowers and still life are also favored motifs. A selection of oil on canvas paintings focus on groups or singular flowers forms against a simple ground or a touch of landscape, emphasizing color and form. View Works »

GERSON LEIBER uses the garden on the East End he has spent many years developing as inspiration for paintings in acrylic on canvas. Intense, sometimes flat, color and cubist type forms come together, giving nature something of an architectonic quality. View Works »

ROY NICHOLSON has created a series titled Vernal Passage wherein elements of nature are simplified to essential form which fills the picture plane as though he has cropped bits of natural form through which white light emerges. View Works »

TY STROUDSBURG takes the North Shore of Long Island as points of departure for oil on canvas paintings of orchards, vineyards, and meadows in rich texture and color. Her approach is most akin to impressionism wherein light is a crucial element in the artist's message. View Works »

PAMELA SZTYBEL delineates the essence of nature in paintings using oil on canvas and board. In this exhibition, the works are black and white tonal paintings on paper and board, lending another kind of light. It is a more rare kind of poetic light experienced in Spring; the mood is quiet and draws contrast to the expected. View Works »

JANE WILSON has drawn inspiration from the light of the East End and its effect on landscape over a long, highly recognized career as a painter. She takes nature on something of a journey in color and space. Large oil on canvas works are often filled with mostly interaction of clouds and sky as they loom over a low horizon, with light often emerging out of depths of deep color. View Works »

FRANK WIMBERLEY is an abstract-expressionist painter who treats the East End landscape with much the same gestural approach as his predecessors, such as de Kooning and Kline, but with his own, individual voice. He is more deliberate and use of light is often more spare and mysterious. He fills the picture plane with dynamic movement and color. View Works »