In the abandoned factories that scar Hudson River towns Kathy Feighery sees "nature forcing its way back through territory it once held." A graduate of the Maine School of Art, Feighery spent her childhood in Ireland and the Hudson Valley. The Irish experience left her with a sense of big open sky and a touch of Pagan mystery. Her bold and powerful work juxtaposes paint and steel, photo transfer and tin, human architecture and the structure she finds in Nature, conveying "the notion of an absolute that won't capitulate. -- VanBrunt Gallery
