To be with William Corwin’s menagerie of mountains, wheels, ladders, alps, gods, boats, and other sculptural ontologies is to be seduced into his pleasing artistic ‘hereafter’ after all.

I recently had the joy of waltzing into the Lockwood Gallery in Kingston and straight into the mighty heart of James Holl. It was a welcomed serendipity on a crispy autumn afternoon in upstate New York. I arrived unannounced to see his solo show Indeterminate Landscapes and there he was, chatting with curator Alan Goolman.

Growing up on suburban Long Island in the 1980s, the fantasy of the East Village art scene trickled down through snippets of stories and photographs in a pre-digital culture. Among the cool kids defining the scene during those years, artists Judy Glantzman and Stephen Lack were the coolest. Pioneers of their era who both showed with Gracie Mansion Gallery, Glantzman and Lack metaphorically mingle through a series of recent and older works in a nostalgic show, Over Decades, at Bill Arning Exhibitions in Kinderhook.