ELEMENTAL | PURE ABSTRACTION
The Fall 2026 show, curated by Pinkwater Gallery, features pure abstract works of art for the home by two artists working in the Finger Lakes region and the Hudson Valley, respectively. Mark your calendar for the artist reception, 5:30pm - 7pm on Saturday November 14.
In both her ceramics and photography practice, multidisciplinary artist and independent curator Ariel Bullion Ecklund’s work evokes a sense of “emotive stillness.” Working with relatively simple, minimalistic forms grounded in the abstract principles of form and line, light and shadow, her work explores concepts of absence + presence, fragility + strength and inner + outer space. Preferring the “rawness and vulnerability” of unglazed ceramics, she generally begins with a slab or coil o clay and leaves the final work untreated. In this way, Ariel allows the viewer space for quiet contemplation and reflection.
Jill Duffy creates abstract paintings shaped by a reciprocal relationship with the landscape she inhabits. Walking and tending the 225 year old Hudson Valley farm she stewards are central to her practice. Using earth and botanicals foraged or cultivated on the farm, Jill makes her own oil paints, inks, and charcoal through historic pigment-making techniques. Working on canvas, panel, and paper, she builds layered surfaces with ink and charcoal gestures followed by handmade paints and cold wax, dragging, scraping, and cutting back through the material to retrace these pathways within the work.
Click here to download the Elemental show catalog with more details about each artist as well as information about available works on view in this exhibition October 1 - November 17, 2026. For inquiries, please email Anne Sanger at gallery@kingstonsocialny.com.
The gallery at Kingston Social features art for the home (à la maison), with a collection of carefully-curated fine art shown alongside accessibly-priced framed poster art. Just like people live with a variety of art in the modern home, the affordable poster art that we offer is carefully selected to sit alongside the fine art, all curated with an eye towards charm and surprise. The giclée prints we feature in our poster selection are all produced using a color-fast printing process on archival-quality paper and offered framed, making it easy to hang on your walls at home immediately. Plus, we know that fine art (as pictured here, on the gallery walls in our shop) greatly enhances the space here at Kingston Social, and we want to make buying art for your home less intimidating and more fun! To that end, we invite you to come, enjoy an espresso or tea at the café, do a little shopping in the mercantile, and take in the art on the walls…
Who knows? You may even in fall in love with an artwork and decide to take a piece home…
Original works of art by Ariel Bullion Ecklund and Jill Duffy, featured in our Fall 2026 fall show.