FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
June 6, 2025

GORDON FEAREY
Lucretius

One of two “GARNER Tenant Exhibitions” to be on view this summer
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 28, 5-7PM

GARNERVILLE – GARNER Arts Center is proud to present “Lucretius,” a solo exhibition of new large-scale paintings by the New York-based and GARNER Historic District resident studio artist Gordon Fearey. Inspired by the Roman philosopher Lucretius, Fearey’s latest body of work, to be exhibited in the Main Gallery at Building 35, meditates on the elemental tension between the finite and the infinite, inviting the viewer into a contemplative space where presence and absence meet.

“In my Lucretius series, I make a single line that begins and ends at the edge of the canvas,” says Fearey. My challenge has been to integrate that line with the rest of the painting — figure with ground — figure corresponding to the human condition of finiteness, the ground corresponding to the infinite time and space in which the figure occurs.”
                                                                                                                                       – Gordon Fearey

Fearey’s “Lucretius” was selected from an open call for GARNER Arts Center’s inaugural Juried Tenant Exhibition. The selection was conducted by GARNER’s exhibition committee, co-chaired by resident studio artist and board member James Tyler, along with Director of Programs and Operations Jesse Heffler. Fellow voting committee members include curators and resident studio artists Brett DePalma and Joe Fusaro, as well as artist Bel Falleiros.

“The recent addition of HVAC to our gallery allowed us to include an additional summer exhibition in our year-round roster,” says Heffler. “With so much talent and creativity surrounding us, the idea to open our gallery even more so to the GARNER tenant community came naturally,” says Heffler regarding GARNER’s “Juried Tenant Exhibitions.” “Gordon’s proposal was striking and confident and convinced us that this latest body of work would be ideally suited for Building 35’s Main Gallery.”

Rooted in Fearey’s long-standing engagement with abstraction and philosophical inquiry, the work resonates with what he describes as “the landscape beyond the window frame” — a place not seen but sensed, expansive and open-ended. The result is a visual and emotional stillness that lingers.

 A separate jury-selected exhibition of works, “Gonna Build a Heaven from a Little Hell” by GARNER tenant, Arden Klemmer, and colleague Paul Christopher Conticelli, will run concurrently with this exhibition in Building 35’s adjoining exhibition space, the Ned Harris Gallery. Both will run during “Upstate Art Weekend,” July 17 – 21.

 Gordon Fearey is a New York-based artist whose abstract paintings explore questions of metaphysics. He has exhibited at The Drawing Center, New York Artists Equity, Lichtundfire Gallery, The Painting Center, icebox4 Gallery, SFA Projects and ArtHelix in NYC, as well as ECOCA (New Haven), Labspace (Hillsdale), Maryland Institute College of Art (Baltimore), and Brickbottom Gallery (Boston).

You’re invited:
School and community groups are invited to schedule a special tour of the exhibition with the artist or curator. Please call Jesse Heffler at (845) 947-7108 for more information.

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GORDON FEAREY

Lucretius

Exhibition Run: June 28 – August 3
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 28, 5-7PM

 Gallery Hours: Fridays, 2-5PM, Saturdays and Sundays 1-5PM

WHERE: The Main Gallery at Building 35, GARNER Arts Center
ADDRESS: GARNER Historic District, 55 West Railroad Avenue, Garnerville, NY 10923
CONTACT: Jesse Heffler, Programs & Operations Director, (845) 947-7108;  jesse@garnerartscenter.org

FOR APPOINTMENTS: (845) 947-7108 / info@garnerartscenter.org
https://garnerartscenter.org/exhibitions

For High-Resolution images and further information, please contact:
Jesse Heffler, Programs & Operations Director, (845) 947-7108; jesse@garnerartscenter.org

FOR PRESS:
Support for GARNER Arts Center is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Rockland County Tourism, The Village of West Haverstraw, The Town of Haverstraw, the GARNER Historic District, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.