The Painting Center is pleased to present the juried exhibition titled Break of Day, Edge of Night curated by Steven Cabral, Lisa Petker Mintz and Christopher Schade. The exhibition will be on view from July 19 - August 13, 2022 and will be featured on Artsy with a catalogue of the artists’ works.

Conceptions of day and night conjure a broad spectrum of emotions and ideas that elicit diverse imagery. This can be an embodiment or meditation on the subjective or perceptual experience of time. One thinks of the serial Haystack paintings of Monet or more recently Byron Kim’s Sunday Paintings. These daily visual shifts echo larger seasonal, and celestial cycles that acknowledge mortality and renewal. Each time evokes a different sensation, ranging from the mystery, vulnerability, and desire of night to the ecstatic and precious clarity of day. Day and night can also suggest light, it’s absence, and how it travels through space. It can be a search for boundaries or an exploration of feeling. In his painting Nighthawks, Edward Hopper conveys the loneliness and isolation of a nighttime urban scene. Artists have sought to capture the spirit of day and night by depicting beauty, decay, rebellion, conformity, the seductive and the strange. The artists included in Break of Day, Edge of Night are inspired by day and night in all its revelations. The works in this exhibition present a broad range of two-dimensional or three-dimensional examples and various media such as photography, digital, sculpture, painting and mixed media.

The artists featured in Break of Day, Edge of Night are: Daniel Atyim, Betsy Bannan, Michael Banning, Samantha Buchanan, Adam Cable, Timothy Callaghan, Dana Clancy, Maximus Clarke, Susan Cohen, Benjamin Cowan, John Cox, Alec Dartley, Simone DiLaura, Anthony Falcetta, Alyssa Fanning, Ecka Blaire Faulds, Julia Forrest, Elise Freda, Max Gregory, Amir Hariri, Karl Hartman, Sue Havens, Benjamin Hawley, Kaori Homma, Baoying Huang, Charles Irvin, Joshua Jordan, Joseph Kameen, Erin Karp, Barry Katz, Brittany Kelly, Brigid Kennedy, Gabe Langholtz, Carrie Lederer, Michele Liebler, Andrea Limauro, Ana Martinez Orizondo, Siobhan McBride, Claire McConaughy, Leor Miller, Seren Morey, Wilhelm Neusser, Mike Nudelman, Daniella Portillo, Robert Robbins, Stewart Siskind, Lauren Skelly Bailey, Emily Somoskey, Patrick Todd, Sarah Van Vliet, Susan Vecsey, Mark Vogel, Jeff Wallace, Camille Warmington, Andrew Werth, and Laura Wooten.

View Catalogue: Break of Day, Edge of Night_Catalogue.pdf