Carrie Haddad Gallery is pleased to announce Between here and home, which brings together the work of Fred Cohen, Frank DePietro, Deb Lawrence, Olan Quattro, and ransome on view May 22 through July 12th. There will be an opening reception on Saturday, May 23rd from 5-7pm.

The exhibition considers “home” not as a fixed location, but as something constructed through memory, material, and experience. It draws on the idea of hiraeth, a Welsh word describing a deep longing for a home, place, or time that no longer exists or may never have existed. The sentiment is often tied to landscape and a sense of dislocation from something both real and imagined. Here, place is an ongoing process shaped by the search for belonging, as well as forms of grounding in lived environments, whether through interior space, the natural world, or inherited material histories. Across painting, collage, and mixed media, surfaces become sites where histories gather and are reimagined through each artist’s distinct experience of place.

Fred Cohen’s paintings develop from an intuitive and sustained engagement with his immediate surroundings. Living and working just across the street from the gallery in Hudson, NY he draws directly from the interiors of his daily life. These spaces become vivid compositions where perspective shifts and colors carry expressive weight. With more than five decades of practice, Cohen approaches painting as both necessity and discovery, allowing each work to unfold through observation and response. His work holds a sense of familiarity that is continually unsettled through subtle shifts in space, structure, and perception.

Fred Cohen studied architecture at the University of Miami before attending Pratt and the City College of New York. He has been featured in group and solo shows in New York City since the late 1970s and received the Prix de Paris Award in 1980. Commissions include large scale murals for private clients and the Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx.

Working from photographs taken in nature, Frank DePietro translates organic forms into carefully structured oil paintings. His practice draws from the traditions of landscape and still life while emphasizing composition, light, and surface. By isolating elements of plant life within controlled visual spaces, he transforms fleeting moments into sustained points of attention. The paintings reflect an ongoing consideration of time, where natural cycles of growth and decay are held in tension with the permanence of the painted image.

Frank DePietro was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and earned a BFA from Bloomsburg University. He has taught widely and spent over a decade living and working at Longwood Gardens, which continues to inform his practice. He currently lives in Landenberg, Pennsylvania.

Deb Lawrence brings together painting, drawing, and collage to create layered works built from repurposed materials. Antique linens, worn canvas, recycled brown paper bags, and discarded textiles form the basis of her compositions, each element carrying its own history. Her visual language is intuitive and direct, marked by bold color, cut forms, and spontaneous gestures. Through assembling and reworking, Lawrence explores imperfection, resilience, and transformation, allowing the character of the materials to remain visible; “It’s the creases and imperfections that create the patina and soulfulness I strive for in my paintings and in life”.

Deb Lawrence is a contemporary artist based in Hudson, NY. She holds a BA from the University of Michigan and a doctorate from Case Western Reserve University and has exhibited widely across the United States.

Olan Quattro’s mixed media paintings are layered narratives that merge personal history with invented space. Family photographs, letters, and documents are collaged and embedded into the underpainting of her compositions. Elegant female protagonists take center stage in the painted landscape. Composed of collaged papers, this figure pulls focus outfitted in stylish patterns, surrounded by fields, birch trees, or floating in a small boat on a vast ocean. She is at home wherever she goes. In recent paintings, there is a reoccurring presence of a small white house signifying that the physical structure of home is within sight. Quattro attests, “This series is a love letter to the idea of finding a place, a home, in this wild and mysterious world.”

Olan Quattro is a third-generation artist who has studied in France and Mexico and earned her MFA from Florida State University. She has exhibited throughout the United States and is currently based in Hudson, NY.

ransome’s practice combines painting and collage to build layered compositions rooted in personal and collective history. Drawing on his African American lineage and its connections to the American South and the Great Migration, his work engages themes of identity, resilience, and historical continuity. He uses found and constructed materials to create surfaces that emphasize rhythm, contrast, and repetition. Moving between abstraction and representation, ransome’s visual language is shaped by both personal narrative and broader cultural experience.

ransome was born in North Carolina and lives and works in Rhinebeck, NY. He holds an MFA from Lesley University and a BFA from Pratt Institute. He was a grantee of the Pollack-Krasner Foundation Award in 2022. He was featured in a solo exhibit at The Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston, as well as in group shows at other galleries and museums including Mass MoCA, the Katonah Museum of Art, The Sigal Museum, The SECCA Museum, the Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, and Weatherspoon Museum of Art.