Carrie Haddad Gallery is pleased to announce its winter exhibition, titled Unexpected light, with landscapes by Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Harry Orlyk, Leigh Palmer and Regina Quinn. In the upstairs gallery, David Dew Bruner will exhibit a grouping of photographs and drawings in his signature vintage frames. There will be an opening reception on Friday, December 6 from 4-6 p.m.

All four artists in Unexpected light are based in the Hudson Valley; accordingly, their artworks bear the influence of our region’s natural beauty. Jane Bloodgood-Abrams’ work is deeply indebted to the Hudson River School painters. From memory, she creates realistic landscapes in oil on canvas and panel that distill the beauty of upstate New York.

Leigh Palmer, who was among the first artists to show at the gallery when Carrie first opened it over 30 years ago, depicts the landscape in oil paintings and encaustic works, borrowing from the language of abstraction to evoke deep feeling in his images. Harry Orlyk paints one landscape image per day with the goal of creating 10,000 throughout his lifetime. His canvases, rendered thickly with impasto, are impressionistic representations of our state’s rural splendor. Regina Quinn also works in encaustic, allowing her to achieve a remarkable range of textures on the surfaces of her darkly atmospheric vistas.