Smoke Signals in Sunlight
Saturday January 10, 4:00 PM - Sunday February 15
Kenise Barnes Fine Art -7 Fulling Lane Kent, CT
Kenise Barnes Fine Art is pleased to announce Smoke Signals in Sunlight, a two‑person exhibition featuring new work by Hudson Valley–based artists Susan English and Laura Moriarty. The exhibition brings together two artists whose practices are deeply rooted in material exploration, natural processes, and the poetics of landscape—each approaching abstraction through distinct yet resonant vocabularies.
Smoke Signals in Sunlight highlights English’s poured‑polymer paintings and Moriarty’s encaustic monoprints and sculpture. Both artists engage with time, transformation, and the physical forces that shape the natural world. Their works—layered, atmospheric, and quietly powerful—invite viewers to consider the subtle signals and shifting terrains that define our environment.
Gallery hours:
Thursday - Saturday, 11:00 - 5:30
Sunday 12:00 - 4:00, and by appointment
860 592 0220
Bruce Brodie: "When I Heard at the Close of the Day".
Saturday January 24, 4:00 PM - Sunday March 15
Craven Contemporary 4 Fulling Lane Kent Barns Kent, CT
Craven Contemporary is excited to announce “When I Heard at the Close of the Day, a solo show of work by Bruce Brodie.
Brodie is an American painter who makes abstract paintings that lean heavily on light and color. The collection of paintings in the show was all completed in 2025. They were started in anticipation of changing times and took shape amidst the persistent drumbeat aimed at consolidating power and curtailing freedoms. The artist's response, increasingly, was to look to the skies to express anger, locate countervailing forces, and find hope. The paintings come after a multi-year exploration of historic and cultural symbols that enabled pictorial clarity but sacrificed abstraction. In these works, abstraction is restored, save the hint of a horizon line; light, space, and story emerge, without cultural reference points.
Hours & Contact Info:
Saturdays, 11 am - 5 pm, and Sundays, 12 pm - 5 pm.
cravencontemporary@gmail.com
(646) 355-8142