The painters in this exhibition, March 18 – April 26, illustrate the richness of landscape painting today. Differences in their chosen media complement their subjects. Looking back on a long tradition of plein-air painting, Ginger Levant works in oil on canvas; Constance Palombara’s chooses oil on linen for her views New Haven. Working in oil and ink on panel, or on overlapping panes of painted glass, Joan Nelson transforms the forms and themes of Romantic landscape. Oil on linen is the chosen media for Diana Horowitz abstractions and distillation of industrial and urban scenes; Bonnie Levinthal’s Turneresque mappings are created with oil and beeswax on panel.

This exhibition is based on the exhibition “Natural Order” curated by Ginger Levant and shown at The Painting Center in New York City from February 3 to February 28, 2009.

About the Artists

Diana Horowitz’s work is represented in collections including the Brooklyn Museum, the New-York Historical Society, the Museum of the City of New York and the National Academy Museum. She has had one-person shows Hirschl and Adler Modern, P.P.O.W., and MB Modern Gallery in New York, as well as in San Francisco, Chicago and Provincetown. A member of the National Academy, she has had grants and awards from several foundations, including a Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. She received her MFA from Brooklyn College after attending and currently teaches painting at Brooklyn College.

Constance LaPalombara has had several one-person exhibitions, most recently at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. Her recent participation in group exhibitions includes Soho20 and Atlantic Gallery in New York, Collectiva in the Gallery Il Gabbiano in Rome, the Paint and Clay Annual in New Haven, CT. Her works are included in several collections, including the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Banca Commerciale Italiana and Wachovia Bank. She received her MFA from the Tyler School of Art.

Ginger Levant has exhibited widely in the U.S., France, Spain and the Dominican Republic. Her one-person exhibitions include the Milwaukee Decorative Arts Museum, Emory University, Dartmouth College, The National Arts Club and The Painting Center; she will have an exhibition at the Whistler Art Museum in 2009. She has had several residencies in Europe and the U.S., including the Djerassi Foundation and Yaddo; she has also had numerous, grants, including a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship. She received her MFA from Queens College and her BFA from Washington University and teaches at Parsons School of Design.

Bonnie Levinthal has had solo exhibitions at the Jessica Berwind Gallery and the Dolan/Maxwell Gallery in Philadelphia and has participated in several group and juried shows including Generations 6 at the A.I.R. Gallery in New York, Art of the State 1999 in the State Museum of Pennsylvania, and the Biennial ’93 at the Delaware Art Museum. She has had residencies at Yaddo and the Millay Colony. Her work is represented in the collections of Merck Pharmaceuticals, Mellon Bank, Bell Atlantic, the Federal Reserve and IBM among others. She received her MFA from Pennsylvania State University and is an Associate Professor of Visual Art at Penn State Abington College.

Joan Nelson’s work is represented in collections including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. She has had several solo exhibitions at the Robert Miller Gallery, the Michael Kohn Gallery in Santa Monica, as well as exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston and The Nave Museum. She received her BFA from Washington University and was subsequently awarded a Max Beckman Memorial Scholarship at the Brooklyn Museum.