Robin Rice curates another exhibition at Hudson Milliner Art Salon, presenting Tucker Robbins Home along with a selection of Robin's gallery artists. The installation image is only a small preview of the exhibition. 
 
With over forty years of experience collecting and designing furniture, Tucker Robbins has been collaborating and storytelling with other designers, curators, collectors and artists. This exhibition presents a collection twenty years in the making from Tucker's patron Phillip de Loach. Tucker's creations “celebrate the native voice; honoring mother, ascension, catching light and the circle of life.” 

Rice has brought together the works of 58 gallery artists and nearly a hundred photographs for this salon-style exhibition. From floor to ceiling, the walls of the gallery are a mosaic of various size photographs in sepia, color and black & white, expertly hung to fit together like pieces of a puzzle. “This is my favorite exhibition even though it takes months to curate and a week to install,” says Rice. “I love the moment when a viewer is first drawn to an image. Sometimes in’s indefinable; a moment when the viewer not only shares but reconnects to an experience remembered.”

Each year, the Summertime Salon matures and Rice’s annual masterpiece is revealed to showcase an exhibition stronger than the year before. Rice has a close relationship with the works of her photographers, and strategically curates the show to best exemplify the artists’ strengths, remaining cohesively linked by Rice’s aesthetic.

In her ninth solo show at the Robin Rice Gallery, veteran artist Patricia Heal documents her visual narrative of their enchanted home in upstate New York. Hidden within untouched forests lies Peabrook, a babbling brook running through the property. The classic architecture of the house is offset by uniquely quirky interiors designed by the English-born Patricia and her husband, Anthony Cotsifas, which generate an otherworldly existence within the estate. "Peabrook is my Neverland," Heal states, in reference to J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan. "It is a fictional place often described as a metaphor for eternal childhood." Heal hopes that, with just a visit to the gallery and little imagination, you, too, can see Peabrook.

"…A man reaches inside his body to show his heart to others. It reminds me of the life of an artist; we bare our hearts and ideas to the world."

Hayman isn't describing one of his own photographs, rather, he's referring to a drawing by one of his favorite artist's—Odilon Redon—that bares the same title, The Heart Has Its Reasons. However you define Hayman's work, the still life photographs are deafeningly quiet. You can just about hear yourself breathe as you address a hat, a shirt, a boat, or a torso. He brings the viewer to the rarest of experiences - a truly still moment. It's a hard experience to find today.