Dawn to Dusk

Air, light and atmosphere are the subjects of the luminous works by twenty-three artists in the exhibition DAWN TO DUSK, opening June 12th and continuing through August 1st, 2025 at Forum Gallery, New York. Whether depicting people or places, the works in the exhibition are imbued with the deep feeling each artist employs by painting the unseen elements that resonate in the surround.

Expansive landscapes by Robert Bauer, William Beckman and Tula Telfair offer the majesty of sky and sun above the low horizon of open meadows while Gregory Gillespie, Paul Fenniak and Rance Jones illuminate the figures in their scene paintings with the light and shadow of day and night. Gillespie’s baseball game and Beckman’s plowed farm field are miles apart in many ways but there is a kinship in their objectivity, while Bauer and Telfair put their impressions forward and leave it to us to provide imaginative memories to complete the pictures. In each landscape, the sense of temperature and humidity is palpable.

DAWN TO DUSK is also an opportunity to see exceptional, precise realism. On view will be an impressive new movie theatre painting by renowned photorealist, Davis Cone; twilight watercolors capturing the atmosphere of Coney Island by Frederick Brosen; magical works on paper by G. Daniel Massad and Anthony Mitri, and the latest poetic New England oil by Linden Frederick; these are shown with classic urban scenes by Robert Cottingham and Craig McPherson. All are artists of consummate technical skill, but here they are united by their remarkable ability to convey emotion and personal involvement with the subject through the care and concern they put into every detail of each work.