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HARRISON GALLERY LANDSCAPE PAINTING STEPHEN HANNOCK, JAMIE YOUNG

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NORTHAMPTON, MASS. — The Harrison Gallery will present a show of landscape art by Stephen Hannock and Jamie Young August 4–29. The artists will be attending the opening reception on Saturday, August 4, from 5 to 7 pm. Though both artists paint landscape, their methods of working are distinctly different. Hannock gets his effects by meticulously applying multiple layers of paint while Young works quickly with bold and spontaneous strokes.

Hannock, of Williamstown and New York City, is a preeminent luminist whose paintings achieve an extraordinary iridescence when he layers his oil paints with resins and burnishes the surface with wet sandpaper. His paintings are evocative of work by the great Nineteenth Century luminists and landscapists James McNeill Whistler, J.M.W. Turner and the Hudson River School artists Thomas Cole, George Inness and Frederic Church.

Hannock’s work is included in public collections such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Smithsonian’s Museum of American Art and the Williams College Museum of Art.

Young, from Ashfield, Mass., is an artist who connects with nature and translates her feelings into visual form. Her paintings of quiet and peaceful places — often deep in the woods — convey the feelings of joy she herself feels when she finds these secluded places. Once she decides on her subject, Young works quickly and without hesitation, trusting her inner sense to guide her.

With a minimum of heavy brush strokes she deftly captures the serenity of a woodland pond or the graceful sway of trees in the morning breeze. One critic called Young an “Impressionist-Expressionist,” the first for her brilliant treatment of light, and the second for her vigorous brushwork.

Young has taught at the Guild Art Center in Northampton, the Studio School in Springfield, the Hill Institute in Florence and the Conway School of Landscape Design in Conway — all in Massachusetts. Historic Deerfield commissioned her to create a 4-by-10-foot painting for its vision center. In 1989 a grant from the Massachusetts Art Lottery allowed her to complete 46 oil paintings and 120 pastels of the Connecticut River, the basis of an exhibition called “A River Runs” that has been on tour of regional museums.

The Harrison Gallery is at 39 Spring Street. For information, 413-458-1700 or www.theharrisongallery.com.