Duane Reed Gallery proudly presents “New Horizons,” a group exhibition focussing on the landscape, encouraging artists to apply their contemporary lens and innovative treatments of material to a subject rooted in tradition. The exhibition features new work from Ahzad Bogosian, Steve Cope, Katherine Glover,

Jill Hackney, Holly Lane, Lesley Richmond, Carol Shinn, and Jeffrey Vaughn.
 

Ahzad Bogosian was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and channels the Midwest and

Western landscapes as sources for his mood-rich paintings. “My work is a response to the

atmospheric, sublime qualities and spiritual essence that exists in landscapes. I see timelessness

in the work. A sense of tranquility and serenity in this digital era.”
 

Steve Cope graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art and received his MFA from Boston

University. After years of painting in grand scale, Cope changed his format to miniature and

easel scale panoramic landscapes. The works are painstakingly rendered to the utmost detail,

directing attention to light, depth, and interconnected relationships between floral growth.

Katherine Glover received an MBA from Harvard Business School before she shifted to full-time work as a mixed-media artist and professional graphic designer. Working with strips of graduated width, she builds lines of Khadi paper into fluid, undulating surfaces. Playing with depth, reflection, light, shadow and perspective, the resulting piece appears to constantly shift as the viewer moves.

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Jill Hackney studied painting at The Cleveland Institute of Art and earned her BFA at Louisiana

State University. A native of New Orleans, she is best known for her still lifes and light’s impact on

her subjects through layers of vertical and linear strokes. Using the natural texture of the wood

she paints on, each painting is approached with a sense of nostalgia.

Holly Lane is a painter, sculptor and woodworker, interrogating the relationship between a picture and its frame. Originally inspired by the playful borders and irregular layouts of illuminated manuscripts found in her University library archives, Lane spends months hand-carving her wallmounted wood sculptures. The result is an elaborate work of art demanding a twofold attention of the viewer: that of the relief sculpture, and that of the painting it presents.

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Lesley Richmond was born in Cornwall, England. Lesley now lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Richmond photographs trees, focusing on the intricacy of their branching structures and

then prints these images on cloth, using a medium that creates a dimensional surface.

She then eliminates selected background areas, leaving the structural images of trees

as the dominant feature. The images are then painted with metal patinas and pigments.

Carol Shinn lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, known internationally for photo-based machine-stitched images. Shinn transfers her own original photography onto a thick fabric base, and fully embroiders over the image using a standard sewing machine, without the use of CNC or "smart" machinery. 
 

Jeffrey Vaughn, from Alton, Illinois, received his BFA from Washington University and his MFA

from the University of Dallas. Vaughn approaches his work with a quiet contemplativeness that

reflects the serene aspects of the natural world and reveals the underlying spiritual nature that

can be found in the environments he portrays, sourcing imagery from Forest Park and other St.

Louis sites.