March 8–May 17, 2025
Familiar/Unfamiliar
Bill Arning Exhibitions is pleased to present Familiar/Unfamiliar, a group exhibition of works by Kevin Mosca, Matthew Bede Murphy, Sue Muskat, and Erik Daniel White, all artists who use iconography and images that are or seem familiar in unfamiliar ways. The exhibition explores the idea that subversions of familiar images from popular culture, advertising, visual art, and everyday life can penetrate the consciousness of viewers in a uniquely deep way. Encountering any mundane image can provoke the question, “Have I seen this before?” or “Do I know what this is?” Realizing that one has or does can sometimes bring about a feeling of comfort in the viewer. Yet that feeling of calm can be short-lived if a viewer realizes that something in the image feels off. Closer inspection can reveal anomalies or slight alterations, prompting a doubling-back moment in which we ask, “What is that?” Such an experience allows one to consider both the altered image and the image as we remember it with more intentional inspection.
Future Fair — May 7–10Magicians of the Valley: Paula Hayes, Roberto Juárez, & Donna Moylan
Bill Arning Exhibitions presents Magicians of the Valley at Future Fair 2025, featuring recent works by three artists with long exhibiting histories Donna Moylan, Paula Hayes, and Roberto Juárez, who are today based in the Hudson Valley, a place where making magic is likely. Each of these celebrated artists conjures highly personal visual worlds through layered material practices. Together they transform paint, plastic, and memory into poetic forms that speak across decades, materials, and lived experience. The exhibition takes its title from the artists’ capacity for transformation—and from their shared connection to the Hudson Valley; a place of retreat, cultivation, and creative intensity. Moylan’s mythic landscapes, Hayes’ ecological sculptures, and Juárez’s luminous botanicals invite viewers into spaces where beauty is inseparable from complexity. Through the layering of paint, the fusion of organic and synthetic matter, and the textured interplay of form and gesture, each artist offers a glimpse into a distinct but interconnected visual world. Magicians of the Valley is both a celebration of individual mastery and a portrait of a region where art continues to evolve in conversation with land, time, and shared creative histories.
Paula Hayes, DH (detail), 2025. Acrylic, plastic, wool, clay, acrylic paint, porcupine quill 18.25 x 24 x 18 in.