PORT WASHINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY / THE ADLER GALLERY
Address: 1 Library Drive, Port Washington, NY 11050

“Day Dreams and Night Visions” Illuminate The Adler Gallery

Port Washington artist Rachelle Krieger presents a solo exhibition exploring nature,

memory, and imagination through luminous, layered landscapes.

The Port Washington Public Library is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Port Washington artist Rachelle Krieger, on display in The Adler Gallery from November 12, 2025 through January 4, 2026. The public is invited to a reception on Sunday, December 6 from 2–4pm, with an artist presentation at 2:30pm.

About the exhibit:

This exhibit will present 15 recent paintings from Krieger’s ongoing series Day Dreams and Night Visions, including a mix of large-scale canvases and smaller, more intimate pieces. Among the works on view is Night Garden and Fireflies II (pictured below), executed in acrylic, spray paint, oilbar, and oil on linen, measuring

36″ × 30″. In this nocturnal composition, Krieger transforms garden forms, foliage, and ambient light into a shimmering, poetic vision that bridges realistic form and dream-inflected abstraction.

Krieger’s Day Dreams and Night Visions series originated from her plein-air excursions on the grounds of the Cedarmere Estate in Roslyn Harbor, NY beginning in 2023. Immersed in wildflowers, cattails, bamboo, white birches, and the ever-shifting patterns of light and shadow, she records what she sees by day—then allows her dreams, nocturnal memory, and emotional resonance to carry her deeper into the night visions she translates in the studio. Her process is a rhythm of looking, remembering, imagining, and re-creating. Krieger draws deeply from her surroundings, combining observational discipline with imaginative vision. The exhibit encourages viewers to move across thresholds of awareness—to explore how observation, memory, imagination, and the natural world might merge.

About Rachelle Krieger:

Rachelle Krieger currently works and resides in Port Washington, NY and has helped foster her local art community through organizing open studio events, curating exhibits and participating as lecturer and guest juror for a variety of venues. Krieger served for more than a decade on the Art Advisory Council for the Adler Gallery at the Port Washington Public Library. Prior to this current

series of paintings, other works were painted on the grounds of the Sands Point Preserve (pictured below),

Old Westbury Gardens, and Shu Swamp Preserve.

Krieger graduated from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY in 1989 with a BFA and continued her studies at the Art Students League and the New York Studio School in New York City. Her paintings and ceramics have been exhibited

in solo and group shows in numerous galleries and

museums throughout the U.S. and abroad, including at Susan Eley Fine Art (New York, NY and Hudson, NY); the Heckscher Museum (Huntington, NY); the Islip Art Museum (East Islip, NY); the Mark Humphrey Gallery (Southampton, NY); and recently in the Nassau County Museum of Art’s (Roslyn Harbor, NY) exhibition

Energy: The Power of Art curated by Charles A. Riley II, PhD.

Krieger’s work has been featured in many publications including WhiteHot Magazine of Contemporary Art, Two Coats of Paint, TIME Magazine, MODERN Magazine, New York Cottages & Gardens Magazine, HOUSE Magazine, LI Pulse Magazine, and Newsday. Her paintings are part of numerous private and corporate collections and can be seen in public spaces throughout the United States including at the Westin Hotel in New Orleans, the Ritz Carlton in DC, the Marriott Marquis in DC and the Texas State Bank in Houston.