Inherent Nature
Curated by Kathryn Lynch
Maya Frodeman Gallery, Jackson Hole
April 4 - May 18, 2025
Trees and Cloud, 2024
Oil on panel, 12 x 12 inches,
Framed dimensions 16 3/4 x 16 3/4 inches
© Will Gabaldón, courtesy of Maya Frodeman Gallery
I-76 Underpass, 2024
Oil on panel, 18 x 14 inches
© Aubrey Levinthal, courtesy of Maya Frodeman Gallery
Hudson River/Devil Pods/Barge, 2024
Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 inches
© Lisa Sanditz, courtesy of Maya Frodeman Gallery
Some Trees, 2025
Oil on linen, 66 x 55 inches
© Elizabeth Hazan, courtesy of Maya Frodeman Gallery
MAYA FRODEMAN GALLERY presents Inherent Nature, an invitational group exhibition of paintings and works on paper, curated by artist Kathryn Lynch. The first of its kind at the gallery, Inherent Nature brings together seventeen landscape painters working today whose work addresses and interprets the natural and manmade world.
Featuring artists beyond the gallery roster, this exhibition invokes the words of Emily Dickinson’s poem The Outer—from the Inner and invites the exploration of human nature and our place in the world from a variety of vantage points. Tania Alvarez, Olive Ayhens, Deborah Brown, JoAnne Carson, Nancy Diamond, Jonathan Edelhuber, Will Gabaldón, Elliott Green, Elizabeth Hazan, Melora Kuhn, Aubrey Levinthal, Kathryn Lynch, Lizbeth Mitty, Donna Moylan, Mason Saltarrelli, Lisa Sanditz, and Suzy Spence each approach paint and the painted landscape as individual entities with a unique story to tell; their Inner painting their perceived Outer.
The Inner—paints the Outer—The Brush without the Hand—Its Picture publishes—precise—As is the inner Brand—On fine—Arterial Canvas—A Cheek—perchance a Brow—The Star's whole Secret—in the Lake—Eyes were not meant to know.Emily Dickinson, The Outer—from the Inner
At first glance, this grouping feels replete with unlikely bedfellows. From Tania Alvarez’ small-scale, sculptural mixed media works of manmade environs to the poppy, art historical fever dream of Jonathan Edelhuber and exquisitely rendered forests of Will Gabaldón, one wonders how they could possibly relate. However, given the opportunity, Mason Saltarrelli’s abstracted forms speak directly to the heady bouquet of cosmic flora of JoAnne Carson and Lisa Sanditz’ deep tonal color fields. Lizbeth Mitty’s impasto-heavy dreamscape atmospherically sets a precedent to view both Nancy Diamond’s pseudo-surrealist articulated clouds and Donna Moylan’s figures, set like constellations in a field of stars. In Dickinson’s words, perhaps, “eyes were not meant to know.” Here, however, eyes rejoice.
Artist and guest-curator KATHRYN LYNCH was born and raised in Philadelphia. She received her undergraduate degree from William Smith College in Geneva, NY, and an MA at the University of Pennsylvania in 1990. She was awarded the NYSCA/NYFA artist Fellow in Painting in 2018. She has been invited to Skowhegan, Yaddo, The Marie Walsh Foundation and The Vermont Studio Center. Since earning her MFA, Lynch has held solo exhibitions and participated in well over thirty group shows both and internationally. Her work is in the permanent collections of the University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA and Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, as well as many corporate collections, including Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and the Millennium Art Collection in the Ritz Carlton, Battery Park, in NYC. The artist lives in Catskill, NY, and works in a curated artist campus called Foreland.
The exhibition is accompanied by a digital catalogue featuring an essay by Grant Wahlquist.
MAYA FRODEMAN GALLERY
66 South Glenwood Street, Jackson Hole, Wyoming 83001
