The Gallery at South Hill

09/06/2026

The opening reception for Diane Woodhull Newton's one person exhibit "But Where Will I Park?" will be coming next Sunday, September 13th from 4-6pm. A must see exhibit! Diane says about the work: Coming up with a title for an art exhibition can be a challenge but with this show, I looked at my drawings of roads and parking lots and then thought of the words on my favorite t-shirt BUT WHERE WILL I PARK? and it all came together.

For years, I’ve considered roads and parking lots—although human-made—integral to the landscape. I’m drawn to the compositional elements they provide—lines and stripes on pavement, road signs and words on buildings—geometry and graphics that come into play with the trees, hills and foliage of traditional landscape. I use my camera to photograph what attracts me—the pictures are “sketches” to draw from—some on large black Arches paper with soft pastels and others become small drawings done in oil pastel. And sometimes the photograph I’ve taken remains just that—printed and displayed as you can see in this exhibition.

Not just any photograph will become a drawing…without certain light, shadow, or color it is merely ordinary. But when these elements are manifest, the work has emotional/psychological content and mood and perhaps some mystery…they coalesce to make a drawing I want to share.

In addition to landscape, there is some abstract work here…you might say I’m all over the map which actually I am. I was born and raised in Nebraska, I lived in Kansas and Colorado and now I’m in New York after a few years in Boston. From the time I was able to hold a crayon to when I was in college and graduate school, I drew. I went to art school in the 1960s—it was the time when Abstract Expressionism prevailed. It influenced me then and it’s still in me.

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08/30/2026

With the last day for the Pamela Drix one person exhibit “of vines and fences” we also had fun at the Cyanotype station and open studios for Seeing Ithaca sponsored by State of the Art Gallery.

08/24/2026

This coming Saturday, August 29th from 12-5pm will be the Seeing Ithaca open Studios, last chance to see the Pamela Drix one person exhibit “of vines and fences”, and Cyanotype station set up for visitors to make their own Cyanotype. A fun afternoon to make your own artwork, visit the gallery, and visit open studios!

08/19/2026

A detail of Matrix by Pamela Drix in the current exhibit "of vines and fences". Open tomorrow 12-4pm, Friday 4-7pm, and Saturday 12-4pm. About this piece Pamela says: Digital and written languages coexist in modern life. Social media and the effects of algorithms on the information we consume is central to this piece. In printmaking, the matrix holds the visual information from which to make multiples. The creation of the image occurs through pressure and transfer, resulting in a proof that is like a translation of the original matrix. Digital information is also a translation, from 1s and 0s to language and image.

08/12/2026

The current exhibit "of vines and fences" by Pamela Drix will be open Thursday 8/13 from 12-4pm, Friday from 4-7pm, and Saturday 12-4pm this week. About this piece "Vines and Fences"
Pamela writes :The site of exploration is the entanglement between organic form and manufactured form. This piece highlights the focus of my work of the last two years. These prints are all hand-printed from drypoint acrylic plates that you can see in Shadowplay. I reconfigured these drypoint prints into a grid like biologic specimens to reveal continuity and discontinuity of forms. What happens at the edges of the prints suggests unresolved tension.
This work also deals with intersections, topology of mesh, tenacity of life, spatiality, edges, individuality versus the collective (the one and the many), and perception and navigation of the world. These are topics, like seeds, that have propagated throughout the exhibition.

08/09/2026

Pamela Drix at the artist talk for her one person exhibit titled “of vines and fences” in the gallery yesterday. The video piece “Collemacchia Meander” was accompanied live by cellist Dr. Sera Smollen during the talk and this collaboration can be viewed & listened to in the gallery through August. Open this coming Thursday 8/13 from 12-4pm

08/04/2026

The artist talk with Pamela Drix will be this coming Saturday, August 8th from 5-7pm in the gallery. Dr. Sera Smolen will be performing the cello improvisation and Pamela will begin with a talk, then introduce Sera’s 20-minute performance with a short explanation about their collaboration. After the performance, we will do a walk-around of the pieces in the gallery, inviting questions and conversation among attendees.

08/02/2026

Pamela Drix and her husband Severin at Pam’s opening tonight for her one person exhibit titled”of vines and fences”! On view through August!