louisa waber: In Every Sense of the Bird

EXHIBITION DATES: september 2 - 27, 2025

RECEPTION: Thursday, september 4, 5 - 8 pm

Closing RECEPTION: Saturday, september 27, 4 - 6 pm

The Painting Center is pleased to announce In Every Sense of the Bird, an exhibition of paintings by Louisa Waber in the Project Room. The exhibition opens on Tuesday, September 2, and runs through Saturday, September 27, 2025. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, September 4, from 5 to 8 pm.

Louisa Waber draws inspiration in part from her sixth-floor view of the Hudson River and the immense sky above it; the variety of lines and their relationship to space; the zigzagging lines, the curlicues, the broken lines, soaring parallels, sharp dashes and slashes, commas, semicolons, and parentheses. And then there is the light - “Oh, the light,” she says, “a different spectacle and poetry every day and night.”

Recently, the view has been altered by the addition of scaffolding in front of the building, offering glimpses of the river, clouds, and sky through a lattice of triangular frames. The scaffolding, though fervently unwelcome at first, brings its geometric beauty. A new kind of structure through which the natural world continues to inspire. 

Waber is a founding member of The Painting Center and has had two previous solo shows there. Other solo shows include The World Inside This One, in 2025, at TenBerke Architects in NY, New Work, 2017, at The Seligmann Center in Sugar Loaf, New York, and A Way With Words, 2014, at the Goatshed Gallery in Brooklyn. She studied at Cornell University and the NY Studio School.