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Rooted in the same Hudson Valley soil that once shaped Thomas Cole, Lauren Sansaricq’s work carries forward a lineage of American landscape painting that understands nature not as backdrop, but as moral, spiritual, and existential ground. Cole—the founder of the Hudson River School—believed the natural world to be a manifestation of the divine, a site […]
“No one ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and they’re not the same person.” — Heraclitus Gallery 495 is pleased to present Interior Passages, a solo exhibition by Joan Oliver (b. 1950, Albany) opening February 14, 2026. Tracing Oliver’s lifelong movement through form, material, and inner space, the […]
Gallery 495 is proud to present “Birdsong Blues,” a live original performance by Ime Soul (fka Immanuel J.) that uses language from phishing scams and algorithmic “hacks” as source material, creating a dizzying, disorienting jukebox concert. Using the format of Karaoke, Ime Soul screams and acts out text fed to them via a karaoke video […]
Gallery 495 is pleased to present Seasons, a group exhibition featuring works by Karina Sharif, Aineki Traverso, and Kate Steciw. The exhibition brings together three artists whose practices explore lineage, landscape, and the unseen threads that bind the living to memory and spirit. Kate Steciw approaches image-making as both excavation and reconstruction. “In a world […]
In This Here Place, We Flesh, curated by Maty Sall, brings together three artists—Aineki Traverso, Nkechi Ebubedike, and Shiri Mordechay—who explore the human form as a mutable terrain where memory, myth, and identity converge. Echoing Baby Suggs’s words in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, this exhibition centers the body as a site of transformation and reclamation, shaped […]
Gallery 495 proudly presents The Color Blue is Warm, a solo exhibition of new works by Ellon Gibbs at Gallery 495 in Catskill, New York, in tandem with his booth presentation at Independent Art Fair.Gibbs brings a compelling visual language to this new series, confronting the primal relationship between humanity and the natural world with […]
This summer, Gallery 495 and the historic Thomas Cole National Historic Site present Paradise Found: Contemporary Paintings by Lauren Sansaricq, a unique co-exhibition that places the work of a contemporary Hudson Valley painter in direct conversation with the legacy of the artist who helped define the American landscape tradition. Spread across both venues, the exhibition […]
For more than three decades, João Salomão has cultivated a visual language that moves fluidly between the streets of Rio de Janeiro, the creative underground of New York City, and the expansive terrain of spiritual imagination. Working across painting, sculpture, drawing, and assemblage, Salomão transforms fragments of everyday life into vibrant compositions that pulse with […]
There is a moment in one of Ellon Gibbs’ paintings when a figure—half-shadow, half-animal—turns its head as if hearing something just outside the frame. Not quite fear. Not recognition. More like instinct. Around him, the world burns blue. The Brooklyn-born painter has emerged as one of the more difficult artists to situate within the tidy […]
