Sunday Salon Lecture: Thomas Nozkowski, Feb 2015

STAFF PICK: "The late, great Thomas Nozkowski, who was featured in our 2015 exhibition, River Crossings, presented his work in a talk that February. It is an open conversational style presentation that is full of insight and stories! He is at once unpretentious and poetic as he speaks about mark making, maps, working in the studio, burnt apple skins, hiking, Shakers, the Hudson Valley landscape, and reading paintings. Rather than try to define or fix meaning around a work of art, he asks, how big can our thoughts be about an artwork? How can we think beyond the edge of the canvas?" Kate Menconeri, Director of Exhibitions and Collections / Curator, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, 2020 THOMAS NOZKOWSKI (1944-2019) For over four decades, Nozkowski produced richly colored, intimately–scaled abstract paintings that derive from his personal experiences and everyday encounters in the world, using shapes, lines, and color to depict his immediate environment in an improvisational manner. The artist lived and worked in the Hudson Valley area. Artwork: Untitled (9-25) (Sams Point), 2012, oil on linen on panel, 30 x 40 in., Photograph by Kerry Ryan McFate, Courtesy Pace Gallery.