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The paintings in Long Summer take imaginative departure from Bialke’s time at her family’s cabin in the Adirondacks during the first summer of the pandemic. Recovering from Lyme Disease, and drawing on the “dark underbelly of 1950’s nostalgia” from the locally inspired movie, ‘A Place in the Sun’, Bialke renders these familial woodscapes in sickly, sallow, apocalyptic hues. In several paintings, (Three Sisters, Two Augusts in a Row, and Cliffhanger) cold blue ‘figures’ seem to reject any external visual warmth, as if they have contracted a mysterious disease.

Bialke’s paintings are largely …