Apperitivi At J Damiani Gallery

There is no shortage of painters and art galleries in this part of the country. But few offer artworks you would actually want to hang in a fine home, or that you could actually afford to take home. Joan Damiani's work is unique in both the quality of her fine oil paintings and the reasonableness of her pricing. Her style of painting is most evocative of Hopper. She uses masterful brushwork, subtle colors and "lighting" in her works to convey a timeless period of american architecture and life. As with the best of the Impressionists, she includes enough of the details, especially in faces, while being subtly suggestive of background elements that should not pull our focus. We now own one of her larger paintings and will will be back for more.

Every walk through Joan Damiani's gallery is a colorful stroll through the imagination of an artist with a unique, touching, and often amusing eye on the world. I'm partial to her photography of the local area as well as Italy, which she visits often, returning with images that capture the vitality of the place. A must-see in Hudson.