Forum Gallery's August 2004 Exhibition Showcases Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Forum Gallery in New York presented a selection of contemporary landscapes in August 2004, featuring over twenty paintings, drawings, and watercolors. Israel Hershberg's 'City Center, Jerusalem' (1990-91) offers a view from a high-rise window, with intense colors at the base fading into hazy neutrals, reflecting admiration for Spanish realist Antonio López-García. Robert Bauer contributed a small landscape of southern Spain and delicate drawings marked by silvery hatchings and dark accents. Craig McPherson's monochrome pastel on canvas draws from Edgar Thompson's historic photos of American steelworks, evoking industrial Pittsburgh. Joseph McNamara's work frames sunset haze through a dry dock's geometry, using pale pinks and violets against dark greens and blues, contrasted with Brian Rutenberg's 'Until 2' (2002). Davis Cone's Art Deco picture houses balance homage and wry commentary, while Tula Telfair's 'Early Utopian Ideals' (2003) is based on 19th-century American landscape reproductions. The exhibition was noted for its vigor during a typically casual gallery season, with the review originally published in The New York Sun on August 26, 2004.