“MORE”: Paintings by Anna Cypra Oliver
October 3 – November 2, 2025
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 3rd, 3-5:30

510 Warren Street Gallery
510 Warren St., Hudson, NY

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Hrs: Friday – Saturday, 12-6, Sunday, 12-5

Hudson, NY – 510 Warren Street Gallery is pleased to present the fourth show at the gallery for Anna Cypra Oliver, titled “MORE.” This show of paintings by the artist begins on Friday, October 3rd and ends on Sunday, November 2, 2025. Visitors are welcome. Please join us for a reception with the artist on Saturday, October 4th from 3 to 5:30 pm.

Since moving to the Berkshires in 2017, Anna Cypra Oliver has been fascinated by the meadows and roadside verges that line the roads of her semi-rural neighborhood. When she paints, she tries to observe, as closely as possible, small splashes of light, changes in color, in shape, dark against light, the blue shadow of a flower carving itself into the bright green of a leaf. She looks hard for the telling detail, trying to see where light slashes against dark, where a form emerges in the background of a chaotic foreground. She’s drawn to bright color, to subtle shifts from one color to another, and to changes in light. Weeds are as beautiful to her as cultivated flowers, the wild abundance along every road as the summer progresses: phlox to tiger lilies to cornflowers to Queen Anne’s Lace to purple loosestrife, but it is really pattern that she is rendering: not the pattern of reality so much as the pattern of form and light. Less is not more to her. Whatever her subject – meadows, overgrown flower beds, Mason jars of farmers’ market blooms, a fish pond – she tries to capture it in all its tangled complexity.

A writer as well as an artist, Anna Cypra Olive’s paintings have appeared along with her published essays, in The B and on the cover of The Best American Poetry 2017. Her memoir, Assembling My Father (Houghton Mifflin/Mariner Books), Layers text, multiple strands of narrative and images, ultimately presenting a literary archeology excavated from her parents’ history and her own.

Also on view at 510 Warren Street Gallery this month is the work of Laura Chester, Lionel Delevingne, Trevor Hunter, Stephan Marc Klein, Kate Knapp, Anne Levitt, John Lipkowitz, Nina Lipkowitz, Mike Magnotti, Hannah Mandel, Paul Nueckel, Marilyn Orner, Ailian Price, Janet Hetherwick Pumphey, Peggy Reeves, Kenneth Sahr, Doris Simon, Guy Sobering, Ken Tannenbaum, and Thierry Taule.