Catskill Mountain Landscapes #3 - Late Fall

In this 36 × 36-inch acrylics and pencil on canvas, Gregory Cary combines geometric abstraction with a richly textured, painterly surface. Overlapping triangles, broad diagonal planes, and horizontal bands create a dynamic composition, while fine linear markings suggest architectural drawings or diagrams of imagined spaces. An undulating vertical contour on the right introduces an organic counterpoint to the angular structure, and low, irregular forms near the bottom evoke a distant landscape. The interplay of crisp boundaries, translucent passages, and rough surface textures gives the painting a sense of layered space and movement.

The palette balances warm peach, salmon pink, terracotta, rust, and cream with a prominent field of turquoise. Yellow bands bring light to the lower composition, while narrow blue accents and a small passage of green provide additional contrast. These colors suggest sunlit stucco, weathered walls, earth, and water without defining a literal setting. The painting offers visual affinities with Cubist fragmentation, Constructivist geometry, and the tactile surfaces of gestural abstraction, bringing architectural order into conversation with the irregular rhythms of the natural world.

Gregory Cary is a Renaissance artist whose background spans the visual and performing arts. He studied design, painting, and sculpture at the Universidad de las Américas in Mexico; trained in dance at the Juilliard School, the Joffrey Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre in New York City; and studied drama at the University of Southampton in England and at Juilliard, where he was a student of Marian Seldes. Before establishing his career in the visual arts, Cary was a professional dancer in New York and Mexico. His credits include performances at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City and with American Ballet Theatre, New Jersey Ballet, the Limón Dance Company, the Louis Falco Dance Company, and River Repertory. He studied and worked with leading modern and contemporary choreographers, including José Limón, Martha Graham, Helen McGehee, Kazuko Hirabayashi, and Jennifer Muller. He is a co-founder of Kaatsbaan Cultural Park in Tivoli, New York, where he designed the 180-seat dance theater, dance studios, and Dancers’ Inn, which accommodates 32 artists in residence. Cary is a nationally recognized stained glass artist with more than 30 major public and private commissions in the Washington, D.C., area, as well as numerous works throughout the Hudson Valley and the Northeast, and in Israel, Canada, England, and Qatar. He received 12 awards and grants for public stained glass works in the Washington D. C. area where his 20-by-22-foot window, Celestial Pilgrimage, forms the entrance to the Festival Center on Columbia Road. Collectors of his work include the Norman Rockwell family. With his husband, Bentley Roton, Cary collaborated on the design and execution of stage backdrops for So Long Eden, a work presented by the Paul Taylor Dance Company. His recent work includes Postcards from the North, a series of pastels on paper incorporating vintage postage stamps from the 1930s into stained glass window designs. His latest series, Catskill Mountain Landscapes, explores architectural abstraction in acrylic and pencil on canvas.

Acrylic and pencil on canvas. 36 x 36 inches. Unframed.