New American lyrical landscapes, an exhibition of oil canvases and works on paper by Joseph DiGiorgio (1931-2000), that feature a radical reinterpretation of American wilderness through a meticulous, atomized technique, opens at LewAllen Galleries on Friday, March 27, 2026 and will remain on view through May 9.

The exhibition focuses on DiGiorgio’s profound assertion that nature remains a site for psychological and spiritual inquiry, transforming the vast landscape into a visual and intellectual sanctuary.

DiGiorgio was a pivotal American painter whose expansive body of work reconceives the natural world through a synthesis of abstracted landscape structure, fauvist color, and the use of dot-like marks. Working, primarily from his industrial loft in New York’s Bowery, DiGiorgio created art that reflected a melding of the “push-pull” dynamics of the New York School, the aesthetic principles of Color Field painting, the romanticized naturalism of the Hudson River School, and the over-all lighting of Luminism. This synthesis infuses his paintings with an engaging light as well as aligning the work with certain ideas of the Transcendentalists who privileged Nature as a connection to the spiritual.

The exhibition opens remains on view through May 9th, 2026.