Landscape collages subject of new exhibit

FALLS VILLAGE — The David M. Hunt Library in Falls Village will have a reception with refreshments for Ameniabased artist Emily Rutgers Fuller’s exhibition, “Landscapes Ins and Outs,” on Saturday, Jan. 26 from 4 to 6 p.m.

The exhibit includes 10 to 12 new landscapes using the artist’s distinctive collage painting technique and large, bold-colored, sewn paper abstracts. A salon demonstration of the artist’s collage technique will take place on Sunday, Feb. 3 at 1 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public. The exhibition will be on display through March 2 during library hours.

Emily Rutgers Fuller was born in New York City and raised on Long Island. She was inspired to take up painting by her grandmother, Lucy W. Hurry, a noted Long Island still-life watercolorist. Fuller studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and at Tufts University, where she received her bachelor’s degree in education. She also studied at the Art Students League and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She lives downtown in New York City and n northeastern Dutchess County.

Originally preferring abstraction, but also painting realistically, Fuller has been recently drawn to teasing out the abstract elements that can be found within landscape views, rendering them through a collage technique that combines naturalistic landscape painting with textured and sewn acrylic paint, photography, mixed media of oil stick, glue, pencil and ballpoint pen on paper.

She finds her subject matter in New York state’s Harlem River Valley in northeast Dutchess and lower Columbia Counties, and uses sculpture and wood cutting tools for the marks she finds in landscape like tree branches, animal tracks, garden rows, and building roof angles. “Landscapes Ins and Outs” presents a timeline of Fuller’s career, beginning with large abstract constructions of acrylic painted, textured, and sewn layered paper and her more recent hybrid collages.

For more information, call the library at 860-8247424 or visit www. huntlibrary.org. The artist’s work can be seen at www.emilyfullerart.com.

Contributed photo “Columbia County” by Emily Rutgers Fuller is part of “Landscapes Ins and Outs,” opening Jan. 26.

Fuller’s “Water and Trees” will go on display Jan. 26 at the David M. Hunt Library.

Fuller’s “Shed Roofs.”