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Opening Reception | Eleven-Day Paintings: Landscape Paintings Exploring the Tension between Permanence & Transience

Opening Receptions, September 17, 2026, 09/17/2026, Eleven-Day Paintings: Landscape Paintings Exploring the Tension between Permanence & Transience

Thursday, September 17, 2026, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

free, no reservation required

New works by Ryan Oakes and Trevor Oakes, identical twins whose paintings emerge from a singular collaborative practice. Since 2018, the Hudson River has been the focus of the Oakes' most ambitious body of work. Painted from a fixed vantage point overlooking the river in Newburgh, New York, the series is executed on three-dimensional concave canvases shaped to approximate the spherical geometry of human vision, or more simply, the curvature of of an eyeball. Beginning in 2004, the Oakes have pioneered a distinctive method of painting on curved canvases, investigating perception, space, and light.

In this series, they introduce a fourth dimension: time. Each painting is made entirely en plein air over eleven consecutive days. Beginning each morning and working until sundown, the artists complete a single two-inch-wide vertical section, recording the precise atmospheric conditions of that day. Freezing rain, dense fog, brilliant sunlight, shifting winds, and still water become embedded within a single image. The completed painting is not a frozen instant, but a chronology—a landscape accumulated through time. Seen together, these works reveal the tension between permanence and transience. Geography remains fixed while weather, light, and season continually transform it.

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