We are pleased to present Remaking the Landscape, featuring five artists–Anthony Campbell, Maxine Davidowitz, Stanford Kay, Christine Lafuente, and CR Laul–who approach the landscape not as a stable subject, but something continually remade through perception, experience, and exploration. Some work from places they have encountered, others rework existing landscapes in an attempt to deconstruct color and composition.

Anthony Campbell’s paintings emerge from the intersection of technology, design, and construction. Drawing on decades teaching digital photography and graphic design, he distills landscapes into essential shapes and a limited palette. Each composition is first developed digitally, then transferred by hand onto wood panels. Painted forms alternate with areas of stained wood grain, creating a dynamic tension between exposed material and opaque color. Campbell earned a B.S. in Studio Art from New York University, studied Industrial Design at Pratt Institute, and received his Art Education Certificate from the School of Visual Arts before completing his MFA in Painting and Drawing at the New York Academy of Art in 2002. He has exhibited throughout the New York region and lives and works in Nyack, NY.

Maxine Davidowitz’s paintings are intuitive, abstract responses to the natural world, often carrying a quiet undercurrent of environmental concern. Her process is layered and exploratory, with paint built up, scraped back, and reworked as compositions emerge through a dialogue between intention and accident, control and chaos. Davidowitz began painting in 2008 after a 30-plus-year career as a creative director for national magazines including Redbook, TV Guide, Parents, Health, More, and Modern Farmer. Rather than pursue an MFA, she studied independently with artists she admires and remains deeply engaged in the Woodstock and Hudson Valley art community.

Stanford Kay reverse engineers Hudson River School paintings using acrylic on art posters mounted to wooden panels in his series Local Color. The series reflects his ongoing fascination with painting—its history, techniques, and its deep connection to the Hudson River Valley. Kay’s formal art education began with a scholarship to the Brooklyn Museum Art School and continued at the Pratt Institute (BFA). He was also a Fellow in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (ISP) and received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) for painting and the Puffin Foundation and the Gunk Foundation for a public art installation in Manhattan’s Union Square. He has shown his paintings both nationally and abroad. He lives and works in Nyack, NY. 

Christine Lafuente has long been drawn to the water’s edge, where the surface below reflects both the distant horizon and the sky overhead.  During the summer, she paints en plein air along the rocky coast of Maine, working through shifting weather, tides, fog, and brilliant sunlight. Shadows, dust, fog, mist, and extreme sunlight provide aesthetic phenomena that both create and destroy form. The resulting paintings hover between representation and abstraction, grounded in observation, yet shaped by the instability of what is seen. Lafuente holds a Certificate in Painting and Printmaking from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she was awarded the Louis S. Ware Memorial Scholarship for European Travel, and an MFA from Brooklyn College. Her achievements include a major exhibition through the Fleisher Challenge Competition and a 2023 grant from the Schaevitz Foundation. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

CR Laul’s practice is rooted in process, a way of recording a moment in time, a mood, a shifting emotional landscape. Each work functions as a kind of visual diary, shaped by lived experience, relationships, and reflection. While earlier paintings carried a certain intensity, recent series have grown more patient and meditative, drawing deeply from nature. Land, sea, sky, and horizon are distilled and reimagined through color and line, reduced to essential elements and then amplified. Geometry, balance, disorder, and color form a rich toolkit, while spontaneity and chance remain vital collaborators. Influenced by architecture and graphic design, his work balances structure with intuition. Largely self-educated, Laul has relied on dialogue with peers in the design world to sharpen his investigations. He lives and works in northern New Jersey.

Works in Exhibition