Lori Bookstein Fine Art is pleased to announce “John Dubrow: Small Landscapes,” on view January 8th through February 7th, 2009.

"John Dubrow: Small Landscapes," the artist's fourth one-person show at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, exhibits two series of plein air landscapes painted during visits last summer to a farm near Hudson, New York and the countryside of Umbria in Italy. Absent of figures and man-made structures, the 28 canvases are the smallest Dubrow has made to date, and are a departure from the large-scale format he typically works in.

Despite their reduced dimensions (the paintings are as small as five by seven inches), the landscapes capture a real specificity of place, as well as a feel for the quality of light particular to each location. The lush, saturated color of Upstate New York contrasts unmistakably with the drier and more subdued light in the Italian landscapes. Unlike the artist's heavily re-worked canvases of New York, Paris and Jerusalem, the paintings in the exhibition exude the immediacy of outdoor painting, while continuing, in concentrated form, Dubrow’s interest in balancing visual input with abstracted form.

John Dubrow was born in 1958 in Salem, Massachusetts. He attended the Camberwell School of Art in London (1978-79), followed by the San Francisco Art Institute (1979-83), where he studied painting under Bruce McGaw and Julius Hatofsky. Since 1983 Dubrow has been based in New York City, but he has worked in Israel, Paris and Puerto Rico. His paintings may be seen in public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Dubois Institute at Harvard University, the Hilton Hotels Corporation, the New Republic and the National Academy of Design. He is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, the National Academy of Design's Truman Prize and Carnegie Prize and the Port Authority World Views Project at the World Trade Center.