A Year in Reflection
Over the past year, The Front Room Gallery presented a dynamic range of exhibitions featuring artists working across painting, photography, collage, drawing, and video. We were honored to share work by a diverse group of artists, each bringing a distinct perspective and energy to the gallery. Together, these exhibitions marked a period of meaningful conversation, creative exchange, and shared enthusiasm for contemporary art.
Linda Griggs
The year began with Griggs’ Comfort and Loss, a solo exhibition of paintings which explore nostalgia and community through everyday scenes. Using sepia and monochromatic backgrounds contrasted with vivid blues, she creates visual depth, enhanced by selective varnish. Her subjects, community and motel pools, are familiar, accessible spaces, romanticized in a style reminiscent of the Hudson River School. Learn More >
Zoe Wetherall
In Living Lines: Aerial Photography, presented at the American Australian Association with the Front Room Gallery, Wetherall examines the geometry created where manmade and natural elements meet. Shot straight downward from a hot air balloon, the photographs exclude the horizon, flattening perspective and revealing subtle patterns, textures, and hues within the landscape.
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Amy Hill
Amy Hill’s Light, Shade and Product Placement, followed with a solo exhibition of oil paintings of contemporary daily life through compositions grounded in historical art references, particularly Dutch Master and Renaissance painting. Office meetings and domestic scenes are rendered with meticulous attention to light, balance, and surface, creating a timeless atmosphere. Hill’s paintings integrate modern devices and commercial products into carefully structured compositions that recall Dutch genre scenes and vanitas traditions. Learn More >
Stephen Mallon
In Stephen Mallon’s Passing America, freight trains became the subject of this solo show of contemporary photography, through which movement, infrastructure, and landscape converged. Mallon’s photographs capture trains in motion along the American landscape, with remarkable precision. These images reveal fleeting moments where steel, environment, and light align. Graffiti covered boxcars added layers of narrative, marking the trains as both working machines and moving surfaces of expression. Learn More >
Linda Ganjian
In Ganjian’s Her Memory, A Metropolis, the gallery became a dense architectural environment built from collage and relief. Drawing on Armenian religious manuscripts, textile patterns, and personal family history, Ganjian constructed intricate works that merged devotion, craft, and urban form. Her pieces functioned as both objects and spaces, inviting a slower pace of viewing and a rewarding close attention to detail. Learn More >
Thomas Broadbent
Broadbent’s Rewilding introduced a new series of oil and watercolor paintings in which animals quietly inhabit human environments with artifacts such as books, furniture, and decorative objects. The scenes suggest a subtle shift in perspective rather than a dramatic reversal, presenting nature not as an adversary but as a patient presence. Broadbent’s work combines careful observation with symbolic restraint, allowing each image to unfold gradually while referencing the symbolism, composition, and techniques of Dutch Master still life painting. Learn More >
Ken Ragsdale
With Ragsdale’s Symphony, the gallery presented a sequence of photographs composed from handcrafted paper dioramas. Organized around moments in a day, the works move through cycles of light and shadow. Vehicles and architectural forms appear as central figures within these landscapes, standing in for human presence. Ragsdale’s process of drawing, cutting, painting, scoring, and photographing was integral to the final images, reflecting his meticulous attention to detail, engineering, and immersive studio practice. Learn More >
Patricia Smith
Smith’s Seeing in Code brought together drawings, paintings and video that explored mapping as both a visual and imaginative act. Towns in the Hudson Valley were rendered from above and layered with constellations, waterways, and imagined systems. Smith’s work linked geography to intuition and suggested that places carry meanings beyond their physical layout. Her large scale paintings and video explored structures of containment and absorption, referencing the environmental concern of rising sea levels. Learn More >
Sasha Bezzubov
Bezzubov’s On Everest, a solo show of large scale photographs, focused on commercial porters in Nepal whose labor supports the region’s tourism economy. Through portraits and expansive landscapes, Bezzubov documented the physical demands and lived realities of this work. The scale of the photographs emphasized the magnitude of the terrain and the burden carried, insisting on visibility and recognition. Learn More >
Beth Dary
The year wrapped up with Notions, a solo exhibition of sculptural and mixed-media works by Beth Dary. Using handblown glass, encaustic, egg tempera, steel wire, fabric, and glass-head pins, Dary creates forms that are fragile yet resilient, organic yet industrial. Through layered materials, meticulous craft, and immersive installations, Dary translates environmental awareness into a visual language of fragility, strength, and the ongoing dialogue between nature and human impact. Learn More >
Looking Back, Looking Forward
Looking back at 2025, the year opened with FR25, the gallery’s twenty-fifth anniversary exhibition, which brought together artists from across Front Room’s history. Seen collectively, the works highlighted the gallery’s long-term commitment to artists whose practices evolve through sustained inquiry and experimentation. Positioned as both a point of reflection and reaffirmation, the exhibition foregrounded the relationships that have shaped Front Room over the past twenty-five years. Looking ahead, Front Room Gallery remains focused on presenting artists whose work rewards careful viewing and long engagement. Upcoming exhibitions will continue to reflect the gallery’s interest in process driven practices, material exploration, and thoughtful observation of the world around us. We are grateful to the artists, collectors, writers, and visitors who have supported the gallery this year, and we look forward to the conversations to come.