Carrie Haddad Gallery is pleased to present The summer show with works by Shawn Dulaney, Joseph Maresca, Bruce Murphy, Bill Sullivan, and Stephen Walling. The upstairs gallery will feature new photographs by Dora Somosi. The exhibit opens on June 21 and will remain on view through August 11. All are welcome to attend the artist reception on June 22 from 5-7 p.m.

In her atmospheric paintings, the Brooklyn-based artist Shawn Dulaney walks the line between abstraction and landscape. Working with handmade paint as well as watercolor, the artist establishes color relationships that alternatively evoke inward experiences and reflect outer environments. The New York times critic William Zimmer once wrote that her paintings “take advantage of their innate ambiguity and declare themselves to be very current in the thinking that lies behind them”. Dulaney’s work has been exhibited at Sears-Peyton Gallery, the Brattleboro Museum of Art, and elsewhere.

Largely influenced by the Dutch neo-plasticism art movement, Joseph Maresca creates kaleidoscopic compositions that express the essential geometry of his referents. Using a limited aesthetic toolbox – mostly straight lines, with the occasional oblique angle or rogue curvature – Maresca coaxes the viewer in and around his labyrinthine picture planes. Maresca earned a BFA from Pratt Institute and an MFA from NYU.

To realize his shimmering abstractions, the Rhinebeck-based painter Bruce Murphy unites highly energetic gestures with a color palette that is dynamic, but not without subtlety. With titles that point to Murphy’s sources of inspiration – namely nature and the metaphysical – his paintings are made with unconventional media and industrial applicators; accordingly, Murphy’s is a genuinely singular body of work. He studied painting at Parsons School of Design.

The late painter and publisher Bill Sullivan is well-represented in The summer show with a group of landscapes – many of which depict iconic views of the Hudson Valley – rendered in his signature technicolor palette. An artist in constant conversation with art history while wholly original, Sullivan felt determined to “take the painting…of the generation before me to places it has never gone before.” He earned an MFA from The University of Pennsylvania and studied privately under Josef and Anni Albers.

Full of wit and whimsy, the wall sculptures of Stephen Walling marry the artist’s keen understanding of design with his appetite for experimentation. Formerly an award-winning art director for Condé Nast publications, Walling explores the transient relationship between light and color via his dimensional artworks made with painted wood. Walling holds a BFA in graphic design from Pratt Institute.

The lens-based artist Dora Somosi uses an array of photographic processes to produce images that obliterate preconceptions of what photography can be. From her arboreal cyanotypes to the “photo-collage nature-scapes” from her Fantastic regular series, Somosi’s pictures unfailingly achieve an expansiveness typically reserved for painters. She studied at Columbia University, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Tufts University.