Expressions in Plein Air – September 2025

This exhibition has been postponed and will not be presented in 2025. We look forward to sharing this show with you again in the future. In September 2025 we will feature our SAC Open Studios event on the weekend of September 20 and 21, along with collections by our Gallery Artists on-display all month.

Thank you to our gracious judge, John Angell.

Plein Air painting is about leaving the four walls of your studio behind and experiencing painting and drawing in the landscape. The practice goes back for centuries but was truly made into an art form by the French Impressionists. Their desire to paint light and its changing, ephemeral qualities, coupled with the creation of transportable paint tubes and the box easel—the precursor to the plein air easels of today—allowed artists the freedom to paint “en plein air,” which is the French expression for “in the open air.”