Painter Alison Moritsugu is known for her minutely observed, meticulously rendered bucolic vistas that recall the 19th century Romantic utopian landscapes of the Hudson River School Moritsugu paints directly onto the ends of sectioned logs. Typically she fragments the details of sky, foliage and foreground into multiple segments to create a single larger work, suggesting that there are missing elements to the placid panoramas she depicts. The occasional rough gouges and the bark edges of her pieces serve to emphasize the interdependence of her source material and subject. Moritsugu’s agenda includes a critique of society’s, appropriation, domination and destruction of the landscape while apotheosizing the pristine abundance of the natural world.

Bill Durgin: Domestic Arrangements

The photographs of Bill Durgin operate within the sphere of both portraiture and interior genre. His sparse yet complex scenes are candid observations of individuals within their own domestic settings, stripped of formality or social constraints. “My photographs are often inspired by performance. I work with actors, dancers and friends to choreograph a gesture or action within his or her own environment, removing the theater and domesticating the drama. Within this vulnerable personal space a disorienting and uneasy view of the familiar develops, created by the sense of the camera’s movement through the architecture.”