(HUDSON, N.Y.) – Melange, an exhibition of works by a half-dozen artists, many of them from the greater region and several of them featuring landscapes, opens at Carrie Haddad Gallery on Thursday, December 12, 2013, and runs through Sunday, January 19, 2014. Artists represented include Jane Bloodgood-Abrams, Harry Orlyk, Vince Pomilio, Juan Garcia-Nunez, Scott Nelson Foster and David Paulson. A reception for the artists takes place on Saturday, December 14, from 6 to 8pm.

The exhibition features landscapes by two of the galleries’ long-time artists, Jane Bloodgood-Abrams and Harry Orlyk. Bloodgood-Abrams’s works often begin with plein-air sketches that she later transforms into emotional epics in her studio. “The paintings are worked over a period of time in a very intuitive manner, with layers of paint, applied, wiped away, and allowed to dry between sessions and be worked over again,” says Bloodgood-Abrams. This push-pull process allows an evocative image to emerge.

With a mantra of “the day is my model,” Vermont-based artist Harry Orlyk makes a painting a day. His landscapes of the rural east are thick and dripping with texture. Orlyk, a master plein-air painter, has exhibited with Carrie Haddad Gallery for over 15 years, and has developed a sizable following. Recently, his paintings have been published in a book produced by the Clement Art Gallery in Troy N.Y.

Scott Nelson Foster’s grey-scale watercolors offer a very different take of small-town New York State. Choosing seemingly abandoned suburban landscapes and focusing on architectural details, lack of action and the suburban expanse, Foster reveals the ghosts of what once was. Tract houses, churches, and trailer parks are forever faded in his little memoirs. Foster teaches art at Siena College.

Painter David Paulson evokes a darker, more pensive landscape of human emotion inspired by the New York School of painting. His heavy lines and deeply intense hues convey the struggle and grittiness of an earlier time. The Ghent-based artist says, “I search for poetics – an encounter again with an aspect of the self. It’s like being a composer. Melody, harmony and rhythm carry the internal content to a certain form.” Paulson has created a series of smaller paintings especially for this exhibit.

The gallery is also excited to show the continuation of Vincent Pomilio’s “Big-Little” series. This Columbia County/NYC painter works with acrylic paint, wax, plaster and marble dust. By taping over his previous layer, Pomilio creates an array of geometric shapes that give the work a multidimensional quality. Whether painted on paper or on panel, these new works have a vibrancy that has become Pomilio’s trademark.

Featured artist Juan Garcia-Nunez works in a multitude of mediums, including painting, film and photography. This show will feature a selection of his paintings spanning two decades. There will be several pieces from his series “Crossings,” which consists of large paintings on glass, used as negatives to make contact prints. Garcia-Nunez’s bizarre subjects are dressed in contamination suits posing with animals. Both the painting and print are displayed in

tandem. Another of Garcia-Nunez’s series that will be shown is titled “Insolents” and features show-horses posing precariously as part of the décor in antique clad rooms. Another series, Almas y Dientas, is made up of dozens of small paintings of saints and teeth. Juan Garcia-Nunez teaches art at Duchess Community College and has been exhibiting with Carrie Haddad Gallery for almost 20 years