There is something tender about the temporal in Sara Berkeley’s poem Bird Room that I immediately felt a kinship with. I like to think this essence operates in my work. When making paintings, I seem to operate simultaneously on two levels: responding on a sensorial level while working to make it succeed on a formal level.

I’m naturally predisposed to respond the world emotionally. It’s what I draw from to make my first mark on the canvas. There is always some degree of pleasure in the struggle that comes with painting to make perfect sense and yet resist logic. My environment, the cyclical connections with my garden, emotional reflections, memories, and the passage of time creates openings for experiences to enter paintings. Struggle is always there, of course, working its way into the process of discovering how to make the work both be and feel. It’s the one constant.

: Mapping a Whisper oil on canvas 2023

: Mapping Tomorrow 56”x 50” oil on canvas 2024

: Moment 36×38 oil on canvas 2023

: From Here to a Star oil on canvas 2023

: Particle oil on panel 2023

: Magic Hour 50”x 56” oil on canvas 2024

: Interrupted 36”x38” oil on canvas 2023

: Hangtime 56”x 50” oil on canvas 2024

: Florescence 50”x56” oil on canvas 2024

: Firefly Kisses 50”x56” oil on canvas 2024

: Touchstone 36”x 38” oil on canvas 2023

: Wonderland 72”x 96” oil on canvas 2024

: Wander 50”x 56” oil on canvas 2024

: Waiting 18”x16” oil on canvas 2023

: The Conversation 56”x 50” oil on canvas 2024

: Rewind 18”x16” oil on canvas 2023

: Murmuration 20”x20” oil on canvas 2023 4,000

Weckler has installed 107 photographs of individuals who have made a creative impact on the City of Hudson, N.Y., all of which were shot during the years 2022 and 2023.

Weckler’s project is a timely documentation of a thriving arts community in Upstate New York. Hudson is a small city with a population of less than 6,000 people and is home to a myriad of creative individuals who work within the performing, musical, literary, and visual arts. Many of them are pioneers, drawn to Hudson before its rise to prominence, and are, in large part, the backbone and vibrancy of the community.

This project has been generously supported by a grant from the Martha Boschen Porter Fund, the New York State Council on the Arts, The Spark of Hudson in partnership with the Eutopia Foundation, a grant from The Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation, and is supported by a grant from the Galvan Foundation.

The project will be exhibited in Hudson at the Private Public Gallery from April 20th to May 4th, 2024.

Private Public Gallery Presents: Deborah Dancy’s “Shift”
JUNE 8th Opening, 3 pm to 6 pm.

Featured Works

CHAD WECKLER’S EXPOSURE / PORTRAITS SHOW EXTENDED BY DEMAND TO MAY 12, 2024

Private Public Presents: Chad Weckler’s Creative Exposure / Portraits of Hudson, NY

On Saturday, April 20th, between 2-5 pm, please join Private Public Gallery for an exhibition of photographs by Chad Weckler, along with the launch of his recently published book, “Creative Exposure / Portraits of Hudson, New York.”

Private Public Gallery Presents: Deborah Dancy’s “Shift” JUNE 8th Opening, 3 pm to 6 pm.

Featured Works

CHAD WECKLER’S EXPOSURE / PORTRAITS SHOW EXTENDED BY DEMAND TO MAY 12, 2024

Private Public Presents: Chad Weckler’s Creative Exposure / Portraits of Hudson, NY

On Saturday, April 20th, between 2-5 pm, please join Private Public Gallery for an exhibition of photographs by Chad Weckler, along with the launch of his recently published book, “Creative Exposure / Portraits of Hudson, New York.”

Private Public Gallery Presents: Deborah Dancy’s “Shift”
JUNE 8th Opening, 3 pm to 6 pm.