The directive was simple: one piece, no wider than 24 inches, and only in black and white. A true act of constraint. In this show, a collective whole of 50 artists have, in their many varied ways, revealed how endless the possibilities can still be when the scope is reduced to just black, white, and just one. I would like to use this entry as an opportunity to honor two elements of the directive: self-selection and palette.

Bowery Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new landscape paintings by Ian Tornay. For his ninth exhibition at the Bowery Gallery, Tornay paints exclusively “au plein-air” in eastern Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. Tornay’s broad, active brushwork captures the elemental forces of nature as wind, water, foliage and sky transpose to rhythmic movements in color. His romantic approach brings the viewer in direct contact to nature’s monumental or intimate aspects.

Kamini Avril’s third exhibit at Bowery Gallery shows two different ways of working; one looks outward, absorbing information through plein air observation and the other turns inward, guided by feeling and memory. Both involve responding with paint in the moment without premeditation, approximating nature’s cohesive chaos.