MAY 2 - MAY 31, 2026
Opening Reception:
Saturday, MAY 2, 2026
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5 - 8:00 pm
IN THE GALLERIES
SOLO: JAMES TESCHNER
We are thrilled to present the exquisite plein air paintings of JAMES TESCHNER — THE SKY AND THE LIGHT AND THE FIELD. Residing both in the United States and France, Teschner obtained his BFA at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), and a MFA in painting at Yale University, and has had numerous exhibits in the US, Italy and France. But it is in France, studying the changing light in a field close to his home, that has captured his wonder.
“I paint outdoors near my home in remote farmlands of central France. The direct experience of being in the landscape, often standing in the same field for months on end, is crucial to my creative process. My work in recent years has focused primarily on the setting sun, the moon, the sky, and those moments leading towards nightfall, and the night itself, whereby the landscape is either being obliterated, almost devoured by the sun’s all-consuming luminosity or being dissolved by the receding, diminishing light.
The landscape in this part of France is rather flat, soft and gentle with small tracts of farmland dotted with islands of trees and lines of hedges delineating boundaries. Cows and sheep graze in meadows next to slow moving rivers. The skies are big, the end-of-day light warm and sensuous. The setting sun and the unfolding sunset is ephemeral, transitory, fleeting where nothing remains constant. Clouds form, move, dissolve, morph, taking on different colors, disappearing into a richly complex atmosphere. Luminescent orange moons rise and fall over a dark silent world. The night landscape is bathed in the cool, bluish light of big full moons unimpeded by pollution or ambient light. Planets hover and are then surrounded by stars, constellations, The Milky Way, all slowly moving across the night sky. Deer screech and bark in the woods then race across a field, an occasional owl swoops in the darkness, moths flutter around my headlamp, moisture comes out of the earth, the temperature falls. I stand there, painting, connecting to the profundity of the universe, with awe, and a profound sense that we are nearly inconsequential participants in this huge vast cosmos, together, in the miracle of creation.”
Special Event — Open Call
A fundraiser for People's Place of Kingston
‘Exquisite Corpse Redux’
AN INVITATION TO ALL ARTISTS, MAKERS AND WRITERS — We are inviting you to gather your artistic forces, find your partners, and join us in the surrealist parlor game called ‘the exquisite corpse’. The players create a drawing, a sentence, or sculpture, by adding to it in sequence, with the previous contributions remaining hidden. The results are often humorous or strange narratives, bypassing individual logic. Learn more here.
Submissions are due August 8, 2026
The show is August 14 - 17
Special Opening party: Saturday, August 14, 5:00 PM
above: Man Ray, Andre Breton, Ives Tanguy, Max Morise | Art Institute of Chicago