Carrie Haddad Gallery is pleased to announce Earth endures, stars abide: Hudson Valley Landscapes, a group exhibition featuring new and recent works by James Bleecker, Sue Bryan, Tracy Helgeson, Robert Moylan, and Thomas Sarrantonio. On view November 21, 2025 – January 18, 2026, the exhibition brings together five artists whose distinctive visions of the Hudson Valley landscape reveal both the timeless resilience of nature and the transience of human experience.

Borrowing its title from a line by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Earth endures, stars abide invites contemplation of permanence and transience, with the timeless rhythms of the natural world contrasted by the brevity of human life and endeavor. The exhibition explores this delicate balance through photography, drawing, and painting, each work an act of reverence for the land, the light, and the unseen forces that bind us to the Earth.

Photographer James Bleecker captures the landscapes and architecture of the Hudson River Valley with a precision and emotional depth that elevate his images beyond documentation. His work has been commissioned by the Albany Institute of History and Art, Historic Hudson Valley, the Rockefeller family foundations, The Frick Collection, the American Museum of Natural History, and The Morgan Library. Edgar Munhall, Curator Emeritus of The Frick Collection, wrote, “James’s work is powerful and mature. Rigorously composed and technically perfect, his photographs can reduce you to tears by their beauty.”

Rooted in the medium of drawing, Sue Bryan’s atmospheric landscapes emerge from a process of layering charcoal, pastel, and acrylic paint. Her moody, tactile surfaces evoke the mist and mystery of her native Ireland while reflecting her emotional connection to nature’s changing forms. “My work is no longer tied to a specific location but instead explores my emotional and sensory response to the natural world,” Bryan explains. “As climate change continues to reshape the environment, I find increasing resonance in the gloaming.” Bryan has exhibited widely in the U.S. and abroad, including the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, the National Arts Club, and the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin.

Tracy Helgeson paints the pastoral landscapes and structures of upstate New York with a serene simplicity that belies the complexity of her technique. Drawing on underpainting and glazing methods developed during her studies at the Philadelphia College of Art, Helgeson imbues her scenes of barns, fields, and winding roads with a quiet luminosity. “I strive for simplicity in my work,” she says, “yet complexities inevitably find their way in via texture, handwritten elements, and small bits of painted detail.” A long-term resident of the Cooperstown area, Helgeson continues to explore new ways of seeing the familiar countryside that inspires her.

Working in gouache for more than three decades, Robert Moylan creates panoramic landscapes that celebrate the rural beauty of Rensselaer and Washington counties in New York. His vivid, light-filled compositions recall the legacy of the Hudson River School while remaining firmly contemporary in their exuberant color and perspective. “Inspired by luminous sunsets and dramatic skies,” Moylan writes, “I depict farmhouses, barns, silos, and fields as reminders of human existence within the vastness of nature.” This marks Moylan’s debut exhibit with the gallery.

The contemplative paintings of Thomas Sarrantonio explore the meeting place of perception and introspection. Often focusing on humble, overlooked corners of the natural world with grasses, hedgerows, the play of light on a field, his work transforms observation into meditation. A graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Sarrantonio has received numerous honors including a Pollock-Krasner Award and artist residencies in France and Ireland. For more than three decades, he taught Art and Art History at SUNY New Paltz, and he continues to paint from his studio in Rosendale, New York. This will also be the artist's first exhibit with Carrie Haddad Gallery.

Through these five distinct visions, Earth endures, stars abide invites viewers to reflect on humanity’s place within the grand continuum of nature; a reminder that while our lives are transient, the Earth and stars abide.