Thursday, July 16, 5-8pm: Echoes of Place at Equity

As a prelude to the inevitable vacation gallery closings, Equity Gallery presents works by longtime DART subscriber AI honoree, and SVA faculty member, Carol Fabricatore, together with Susan Greenstein and Janet Pederson. The exhibition explores the landscapes we occupy, whether natural or made, physical or imaginative in a wide-ranging view of the place and space. Above: Carol Fabricatore, The Presence, acrylic, 2025
Carol writes:

Echoes of Place brings together three distinct artists who interpret the environments around them through a blend of direct observation and studio exploration. Whether working on location or from memory, or both, each artist engages deeply with the spaces they inhabit, capturing not only the visual qualities but the subtle energies of their surroundings. Some works are completed on-site, while others evolve in the studio, allowing for reinterpretation, abstraction, and the fusion of representation with spontaneous mark-making. Above: Susan Greenstein, Utah Backyard, watercolor, 2025

At the heart of the exhibition is a shared commitment to curiosity, experimentation, and narrative. The artists delve into the dynamic interplay between form, light, texture, and color, revealing the layers of meaning embedded in the landscape. Each piece serves as a window into the artists' emotional responses, inviting the viewer to experience the stories that unfold in every brushstroke, line, and shape and personal color palettes. Above: Janet Pedersen, Passing Houses, Flashe and graphite, 2024

This collection is not merely a depiction of place, but a vivid translation of its essence,
imbued with the rhythms and energy that shape it.

NYAE/Equity Gallery, 245  Broome Street, New York, NY Info

Plants, Animals and Sky at CANADA

If your summer itinerary involves navigating the sizzling, sun-baked canyons of Tribeca, make a detour to Tribeca’s CANADA NYC, where   Plants, Animals and Sky is on view. Running through August 7, the exhibition centers around the natural world, refracting themes of ecology, landscape, and the environment through the unique lenses of the gallery's contemporary painters and sculptors. A diverse cohort of modern and historic artists, reaching back to tonalist painter George Innes, also includes Lois Dodd, Marsden Hartley, Gerald Ferguson, Francesco Igory Deiana, Elizabeth Kley, Sam Falls, and Tyson Reeder Click for  a preview. Above: Diana Mallett, Seagull

CANADA NYC, 60 Lispenard Street, New York, NY Info 

Before New York Pop-Up at Green-Wood Cemetery

Green-Wood Cemetery is hosting a showing of Dr. Eric B. Sanderson’s  Before New York—a sequel to the acclaimed 2009 exhibition and book, Manahatta: A Natural History of New York. Organized by Bronx Botanical Garden, where Dr. Sanderson is chief ecologist, the pop-up offers a view of  the nature of the place we now call the City of New York. He and  colleagues have spent more than 25 years reconstructing the lives of the inhabitants of this remarkably rich and diverse coastal landscape as it existed on September 12, 1609, on the eve of a visit by the English navigator in Dutch employ, Henry Hudson. We call the landscape that became New York CityWelikia, a borrowed word from the Munsee-Lenape language that means “my good home.” 

Welikia was exceptionally productive and diverse, providing home to thousands of species and to the Indigenous Lenape people for thousands of years before Hudson arrived. Enter to see the city like you’ve never seen it before, learn about the origins of place, and to appreciate the ways in which we have, do, and can shape our good home. Click to order the book.  The show concludes at Green-Wood on July 19^th, then opens on July 25^th at Queens Public Library, Central Branch. Info  Before New York is also installed at the Bronx Botanical Garden’s Ross Gallery  through November 15^th. Info

Green-Wood Cemetery. 25^th Street,.Broollyn, NY Directions. Queens Public Library, 9-11 Merrick Blvd, Jamaica, NY, Info. Bronx Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd., Bronx, NY Info

Continuing: Fairfield Porter | What Everyone Knows at Art Students League

There is a quiet, radical intimacy in the way Fairfield Porter painted the world. It is the texture of afternoon light raking across the edge of an unmown field, or the structural poetry found in a simple domestic interior. Now, in a long-overdue homecoming, the Art Students League of New York presents Fairfield Porter: What Everyone Knows—the artist’s first major New York City exhibition in a quarter-century.

It is a fitting return. Before Porter became one of the twentieth century’s most formidable figurative painters and art critics, he was a student there, arriving in 1928 to study under Thomas Hart Benton. While history often fixates on the concurrent rise of the Abstract Expressionists—many of whom Porter championed in print—this exhibition shifts our gaze back to his own defiant, luminous realism.

Described by John Ashbery in 1983 as “perhaps the major American artist of this century,” Porter (1907–1975) remains an essential if still under-recognized figure whose paintings of shaded lawns, uncleared tables, and briny coasts are both lush and challenging, each motivated by Porter’s fundamental claim: “the real is specific.” Bringing together over 35 masterful loans from the Parrish Art Museum, the Whitney, and private collections, together with several works from the League’s permanent collection, the show reveals an artist who bypassed the noise of the avant-garde to capture something far more enduring: the profound mystery of the everyday. For anyone who loves the intersection of paint, place, and deep observation, this is one of the summer's essential views.

Through August 18 at the Art Students League of New York, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery FL2, 215 West 57th Street, New York, NY Info