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Berry-Hill is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Judith Belzer. After more than twenty years working with imagery from the intimate New England landscape of her home in rural Connecticut, she has recently moved to Northern California where she has produced an evocative body of work inspired by a completely new terrain.
Belzer continues to use landscape to explore both the order and chaos of the physical world as well as the psychological complexity of sensory experience. And as in the past, her paintings reject traditional conventions of landscape painting – the ground plane and the horizon line. The space, color and light in these current works have shifted dramatically, newly energized by the landscape of the American West. Many of the paintings have highly animated surfaces, crowded with muscular forms. Twisting, writhing tree limbs reach out breaking through spaces of blue light and deep gray shadows. Luscious magenta buds seem suspended in green space. Belzer challenges traditional American landscape painting which embraces a sublime and constant view of nature by painting a vivid, natural world unprotected from the ideal. She amazes us by placing us within an ever-changing landscape, untamed, mysterious and always beautiful.
Judith Belzer was born in Chicago in 1956. She received her B.A. from Barnard College, attended the New York Studio School and received a Norfolk Fellowship from Yale College. Her work has been the subject of several one-woman shows in Boston, Chicago and New York and she has exhibited in group exhibitions in New York, Boston and Sante Fe. Judith Belzer’s work can be found in such public collections as Equitable Life Insurance, Reader’s Digest, Lifetime Cable, and Spaulding Corporation.
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Berry-Hill Galleries is open Monday through Friday
9:30 to 5:30; Saturday, 10:00 to 5:00.
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