Park Row Gallery News

Local landscapes by local artist Robin Guthridge are featured in a solo show at the Park Row Art Gallery in Chatham, NY opening November 11th and will continue till December 30th. An artist reception will be held on Saturday, December 2nd from 4-6pm featuring live music performed by Lee Russo. Gallery hours are Mon, Tues-Sat 11-5.

The Paintings, all in oil often depict well-known views like that from Olana, the historic home of Frederic Church, on a crisp autumn day rich with contrast and color. "This view is at the heart of the Hudson River Valley and I love to paint it as the seasons change," Guthridge says. She travels the region to study locatios for her art, hiking to a viewpoint or boatig in search of a perfect scene.

Traditional and realistic, this collection gently captures local scenery of the Hudson River, Catskill Mountains, Lake George and the Adirondacks. Frequent subjects include rolling meadows, mountains sunsets and peaceful lakes and rivers scenes. Many are on the small scale favored by the artist for the concentration of energy and detail. "My landscapes are part fact and part imagination. I feel free to be a little romantic and to idealize some of these beautiful places," Guthridge says.

Robin Guthridge holds a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts from the State University of New York at New Paltz. Born and raised only a few miles from Chatham, site of this show, she now resides in Albany, NY. She is represented by a number of local New York galleries including Certified Framing and Gallery, Loudonville; The Mark Gruber Gallery, New Paltz; Lakeshore Gallery, Bolton Landing; Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson; and Masterpiece, Kinderhook. She is also shown at the Riverview Cafe in Stuyvesant. Her work is included in corporate collections including Intermagnetics General Corporation and Cyclics Corporation, and is displayed by Blair House Interiors.