Lisa Lebofsky, “Forms of Formlessness”, 2025, oil on aluminium, 25” x 40”

 “NYC Watershed Art Project”

 Diana Buitrago                         Erik Koeppel                            Mario Robinson                                    

John Burkholder                       Lisa Lebofsky                           Patricia Watwood                                 

Robin Kappy                            Eric Leichtung                          Tony Winters

In keeping with its public art and allied resiliency programing, NYAE and Equity Gallery present “NYC Watershed Art Project”, a group exhibition comprising new oil paintings and maps depicting the picturesque environs and monumental structures providing drinking water to New York City.

Featuring works created by artists associated with leading institutions such as the Grand Central Atelier, New York Academy of Art, and the Hudson River Fellowship, as well as professional land planners and mapmakers, the exhibition presents a compelling portrait of natural resource stewardship aimed to safeguard the majestic lands that inspired the Hudson River School artists.  

Realistic paintings echoing the Hudson River School style, along with hand-drawn maps, scaffold a broad and inspiring audience engagement with NYC’s watershed system; viewers will be invited to discover the source of their drinking water as it travels from the Catskill Mountains through giant aqueducts while experiencing the sublimity of nature through the eyes of award-winning landscape artists.

The exhibition is organized by Tony Winters with the help of advisors Jon Bowermaster of Oceans 8 Films, and Dr. Eban Goodstein, Director of Graduate Programs in Sustainability, Bard College. 

NYAE and Equity Gallery programs are funded by the New York State Council on the Arts and the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs; additional support for this project provided by Hart/Howerton.