Landfall
Landfall new work by Casey Inch
Exhibition Dates: April 18th-May 16, 2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 18th 5-8pm
Location: O+ Exchange, 334 Wall St, Kingston, NY
Gallery Hours: Thurs-Sat 12-6pm or by appt
In this exhibition, Casey Inch borrows from the language and history of the Hudson River School in his meticulously crafted paintings and drawings to remind us of our scale in both space and time, beautifully rendering both our inconsequence and the limits of our perspective. In layers of translucent oil, light and color, he presents us with sublime views of awesome, yet familiar, landscape and embeds a warning within. Abuses of power, extraction of resources, myopic thinking and material want imbues us with both an outsized impact and short-sighted sense of our role in the world.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Landscape speaks a shared visual language. I use landscape as a signifier of the era we inhabit. Each painting confronts an aspect of humanity’s essential, and fragile, relationship with the natural world. At the center of that tenuous connection lies climate change, war, and environmental instability which echo across the terrain. Landscape in my work is both a witness and a metaphor. Elemental forces shape the narratives found within: storms, erosion, fires of unknown origin. Destruction and healing unfold in the same breath: ash nourishes new growth, ruin clears ground for renewal. The landscape becomes a stage for the cyclical rhythms that govern the natural world and the duality inherent in that cycle—death, rebirth, collapse, growth and emergence–while human impact remains ever-present.
The work draws upon the imagery of Romanticism and the Hudson River School. This lineage orients my practice within the historical narrative of Western landscape painting while responding to contemporary concerns. Some works recall 19th century notions of the Sublime, others suppress that drama to affect slower, more contemplative revelations. The result is a form of memento mori as these paintings can be viewed as disappearing or emerging, hopeful or foreboding, elusive or already a memory. They are at once celebratory of the wonder of the natural world as well as a reminder of all that we have to lose.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Casey Inch (b. 1982) is a New York based painter and educator. His journey as an artist began at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, studying under a landscape painter. This exposure to the vastness and grandeur of the American West, bookended by life in a dense urban environment, has pushed his landscapes away from a focus on observations of the natural world toward a critical view of mankind’s collective relationship to it. Inch exhibits his work nationally, with numerous exhibitions in NYC and throughout the Hudson Valley. Selected exhibitions include The Silvermine Guild, Steuben Gallery, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, Aswoon Gallery, Hun Gallery, Dacia Gallery, Hudson Guild Gallery, Works Gallery, Curious Matter, The Noyes Museum of Art, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Usable Space, and The Salmagundi Club. His work is in private collections throughout the US and has been featured in publications like Studio Visit Magazine. Inch is also an accomplished arts educator and administrator. He served for 10 years in the Office of Admissions at Pratt Institute, taught art history for Pratt’s pre-college program as well as drawing and portfolio development workshops abroad in Istanbul, Izmir, and Alacati, Turkey for over a decade. He also taught courses in painting for The Educational Alliance Art School and continues to work independently as an instructor/mentor to private students and working artists throughout New York City. He holds a BFA from University of Colorado at Boulder and an MFA from Pratt Institute. Inch currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
You can see Casey’s work on his art website at caseyinchstudio.com
@casey_inch_studio
The O+ Exchange Gallery is an exhibition and performance space located within the organization’s home base. The gallery prioritizes performances and exhibitions by O+ alumni and other artists working throughout the Hudson Valley as a way to provide them with opportunities to share their work with the public as a pathway to healthcare access through O+’s distinct exchange-based model of care.