Dave Walsh: Viewshed

January 15 – February 27 2026

The paintings in this exhibition continue the artist’s dialogue with the Hudson River School. Like those painters, Walsh’s landscapes are focused on areas in and around the Catskills in New York state. This was an area of great importance for 19th century painters like Thomas Cole and Frederic Chrurch, whose depictions of the region helped to establish what they deemed to be a distinctly American art that propagated the young nation’s vast, natural beauty with divine favor and the promise of Manifest Destiny. Like an embedded journalist, Walsh spends extended time hiking, camping and immersing himself within the location in order to develop a somatic relationship with the environment in addition to studying its rich history. But ultimately, the artist’s overarching concern with abstract principles of composition and positive/negative space dominate the work.

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