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Jane Bloodgood-Abrams
In the Afterglow (Contemporary Atmospheric Landscape Color Field Painting)

2021

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Modern Luminist, Hudson River School landscape painting on canvas of the expansive view over the Hudson River as observed at the top of Olana, the historic home of Frederic Church "In the Afterglow" by Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, painted in 2021 Horizontal landscape painting, 48 x 60 x 1 inches unframed with white painted sides wired on reverse for easy hanging Artist's signature is located on lower left Acclaimed artist of the Hudson Valley, Jane Bloodgood, takes her painting to a new level with a new work entitled "In the Afterglow". Her interpretation of this very iconic view (observed from the top of Olana, the historic home of Frederic Church located near Hudson, NY) is set during the very quiet moments of a summer's evening when the sun has dipped beyond the mountains. The crystal blue sky illuminates with the sun's setting rays; a golden band of yellow haze otherwise known as "The Venus Belt" is an atmospheric phenomenon only visible shortly before sunrise or right before sunset. The water reflects the pink and purple glow that forms near the horizon; the dusty shadows of trees tower over the water's edge. We marvel at how simply Jane captures a complex phenomenon, evidence of her unparalleled ability to paint light and endow her work with luminosity. Yet this painting succeeds not only in its representation of the actual landscape and the awe produced by the experience, but also in its contemporary abstraction of atomsphere. The big, open blue sky is stacked with the colors of the sunset against the horizon, calling to mind a Rothko or the other great color field painters who achieve mood and depth from singular color. About the work: Painter Jane Bloodgood-Abrams has become one of the area’s most celebrated artists, gracing viewers with her compositions of sky, river, and earth. Being less concerned with documenting specific scenes, Bloodgood-Abrams is focused on capturing nature’s essence, “the deeply profound moments, where there is a connection to a vital energy.” Her process begins with being in nature, where she allows the emotional energy of the landscape to filter through her psyche. The memory is then translated onto canvas after being worked over a period of time with layers of paint that is applied, wiped away, and reworked. The result is a radiantly dramatic remembrance of Bloodgood-Abram’s encounter with “something beyond everyday life”. The artist’s final hope is for these images to evoke remembrances within the viewer's own personal relationship with nature. Artist Biography: Jane Bloodgood Abrams was born in Queens, New York. She received her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from the College of Saint Rose in Albany, in 1985. Three years later, she earned a Master’s of Fine Arts at the State University of New York in New Paltz. Now she paints in the Hudson River Valley and the Berkshires. EDUCATION Master of Fine Arts Painting - (cum laude) State University of New York at New Paltz 1988 Bachelor of Studio Arts - (cum laude) College of Saint Rose, Albany 1985 SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2015 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2014 Mark Gruber Gallery, New Paltz, NY Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2013 Christopher Clark Fine Art, San Francisco, CA The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA 2012 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson NY River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN The Storefront Gallery, Kingston, NY "Beyond the Real" 2011 The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY Locust Grove State Historical Site, Poughkeepsie, NY 2010 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2009 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2008 DFN Gallery, New York, NY 2007 Meyer East Gallery, Santa Fe, NM The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2006 Mendenhall-Sobieski Gallery, Los Angeles, CA DFN Gallery, New York, NY Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2005 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN 2004 Albert Shahinian Galleries, Poughkeepsie, NY Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2003 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY Living Room Gallery, Kingston, NY River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN 2002 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 2001 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY Artforms Gallery, Albany, NY 2000 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY Mark Gruber Gallery, "Romancing the Landscape" New Paltz, NY 1999 River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN 1998 Alan Sheppard Gallery, Piermont, NY "New Traditions" 1997 Coffey Gallery, Kingston, NY SELECTED JURIED AND INVITATIONAL MULTI-ARTIST EXHIBITIONS: 2016 Byrdcliffe’s Legacy: An ode to Nature and Place, Kleinert Art Center, Woodstock, NY Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region, Hyde Collection Museum, Glens Falls, NY ARTBAR Gallery, Kingston, NY 2015 The Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville, NY Jessica Hagen Fine Art, Newport, RI 2014 Jessica Hagen Fine Art, Newport, RI “Riverscapes,” The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA "Far and Wide" Regional Juried Exhibition, Woodstock Art Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY 2013 Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region, Hyde Collection Museum, Glens Falls, NY Far and Wide" Regional Juried Exhibition, Woodstock Art Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY 2012 "Riverscapes," The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA “The Great Hudson River Exhibition,” Mill Street Loft at Beacon Waterfront, Beacon, NY “The Resilient Landscape: Traditional to Modern,” New England College, Henniker, NH NYFA MARK ’11, Kleinert James Art Center, Woodstock, NY "Far and Wide" Regional Juried Exhibition, Woodstock Art Association and Museum, Woodstock, NY 2011 “Exercises in Unnecessary Beauty” Samuel Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY 2010 Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region, Hyde Collection Museum, Glens Falls, NY New Landscapes, DFN Gallery, New York, NY Woodstock Regional Exhibition, WAAM Gallery, Woodstock, NY Visions of New England, Bennington Center for the Arts, Bennington, VT 2009 The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Annual Exhibition, National Arts Club, NYC WSA National Exhibition, Woodstock NY (K.L. McKenna Award) "River" WAAM National Exhibition, Woodstock, NY Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT "An Enduring Influence: 8 Painters Inspired by the Hudson River School," ASK Gallery, Kingston, NY 2008 River Gallery, Chattanooga, TN 2007 National Association of Women Artists, VA Mohawk Hudson Regional, Albany NY 2006 The Harrison Gallery, Williamstown, MA Nightscapes Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, NY Meyer-East Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Van Brunt Gallery, Beacon, NY National Arts Club, New York, NY Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Annual Montana Trails Gallery, Bozeman, MT 2005 Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield MA, Power of Place: The Berkshires DFN Gallery, New York, NY The Forest Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY, Mohawk Hudson Regional Living Room Gallery, Kingston, NY, Luminous Visions Gallery 100, Saratoga, NY, Lake George Views DFN Gallery, New York, NY, 10th Anniversary Exhibit Haddad-Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, Landscapes National Arts Club, New York, NY Pastel Society of America Annual National Arts Club, New York, NY Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Annual 2004 DFN Gallery, New York, NY, Skies Albany Center Galleries, Albany, NY, Mohawk-Hudson Invitational Segalas Gallery, Bernardsville, NJ Haddad-Lascano Gallery, Great Barrington, MA 2003 Gallerie Abtei Brauweiller, Cologne, Germany Mohawk-Hudson Regional, Museum at the State University at Albany, Albany, NY Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT Envisioned in a Pastoral Setting 2002 National Arts Club, New York, NY Pastel Society of America Annual National Arts Club, New York, NY Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Annual 2001 Florence International Bienniale, Florence, Italy Objects and Images, Bronxville, NY "The New Hudson River School Edward Hopper Museum, Nyack, NY Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT A Envisioned in a Pastoral Setting@ 2000 The Austellung, Payerbach Austria Sacred Visions National Arts Club, New York, NY A Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Annual Jaqueline Casey Hudgens Center for the Arts, Duluth, GA A Southeast Pastel Society Annual Degas Pastel Society, New Orleans, LA Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT A Envisioned in a Pastoral Setting National Arts Club, New York, NY A Pastel Society of America Annual 1999 Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, NY 1998 New York State Biennial Invitational, New York State Museum, Albany, NY 1996 Trinity Arts Group, Atlanta, GA 1995 Marist College Art Galleries, Poughkeepsie, NY Heritage Art Gallery Juried Competition, Poughkeepsie and Rhinebeck, NY 1994 Pennsylvania State University, PA “Images” 1993 Clermont State Historic Site, Clermont, NY “Young Artists of the Hudson Valley" North Museum, Lancaster, PA “The Art of Nature" Blue Mountain Gallery, New York, NY "Diversity and Vision" PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS (selected): The Hyde Collection Museum, Glens Falls, NY AIG Insurance, New York Barclays Capital Inc., New York, NY Federal Express Corporation, New York, NY Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY McGraw-Hill Books, New York, NY First Albany Corporation, Albany, NY OCI Industries, New York and Wyoming Coca Cola Corporation, Atlanta, GA Town of Washingtonville, NY City of Edinburgh, Scotland Health Alliance Hospitals, Kingston, NY College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY GRANTS, AWARD, FELLOWSHIPS and other recognition (selected): 2016 Guest Panelist, “American Art Colonies” Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NY 2015 Guest Lecturer, “The Hudson River School and It’s Enduring Influence,” Fred Johnston Museum, Kingston, NY 2012 Semi-Finalist for $20,000 Basil H. Alkazzi Award in Painting 2012 Arts Society of Kingston Annual Gala - Honoree for Artistic Excellence 2012 Kate Mariel Diana Award for Landscape, Woodstock Art Museum 2011 NYFA MARK Fellowship 2010 - 2014 paintings featured on the set of the HBO Television Series “Boardwalk Empire” 2009 Hyde Collection Museum Purchase Award 2003 Rhine-Hudson Artist Exchange, Cologne Germany 2002 Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Grant 2000 Guest Presenter, Artists in the Tradition of the Hudson River School: A Symposium, New York Historical Society, New York, NY 1998 New York State Foundation for the Arts - Special Opportunity Stipend Award Artist's Residency, Catskill Center Preserve, Platte Clove, NY 1987 State University of New York at New Paltz, Graduate Fellowship PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS (selected) American Art Collector Magazine, December 2014 “Jane Bloodgood-Abrams’ Works on View in Hudson” The Almanac Nov. 7, 2014 American Art Collector Magazine, November 2011 The Artful Mind, November 2010 American Art Collector, June 2007 American Art Collector, February 2006 Jane Bloodgood-Abrams: A Spiritual Connection with Her Home@ Plein Air Magazine, April 2005 Back to (the Hudson River) School, Artist feature, Hudson Valley Magazine, April 2002 "The Luminous Landscapes of Jane Bloodgood-Abrams," The Country, Nov 2000 "Luminist Paintings in Hudson", Northeast Art and Antiques, December 1999 "Luminist Pleasure: A Marriage of Meteorology and Metaphysics", ARTideas, Vol. 5 No.3, 1998 MEMBERSHIPS: National Association of Women Artists, Inducted Member Pastel Society of America, Signature Member Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Juried Member Woodstock Art Association - Juried Active Member Artists Fellowship Foundation, Member American Association of University Women, Member
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    2021
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    Height: 48 in (121.92 cm)Width: 60 in (152.4 cm)Depth: 1 in (2.54 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Hudson, NY
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    1stDibs: LU2279768532

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