Rachelle Krieger: Day Dreams and Night Visions
A Solo Exhibition Featuring 15 Recent Paintings
The Adler Gallery at the Port Washington Public Library
1 Library Drive, Port Washington, NY 11050
On view November 12, 2025 – January 4, 2026
Reception & Artist Talk: December 6, 2-4pm; artist presentation at 2:30pm
The Port Washington Public Library is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Port Washington painter 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.
Krieger (b. 1967, Queens, NY) earned her BFA from Pratt Institute (1989) and pursued further studies at the Art Students League and the New York Studio School. Over her career, she has exhibited widely and is collected in both private and public collections. Krieger resides and works in Port Washington and has long been an active contributor to the regional arts community. She draws deeply from her localsurroundings, combining observational discipline with imaginative vision.
This show will present 15 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” (2024), 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.
The exhibit encourages viewers to move across thresholds of awareness—to perceive how vision, light, memory, and the natural world might merge.
The Adler Gallery hours are: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday 9am to 9pm; Wednesday 11am to 9pm; Saturday 9am to 5pm; and Sunday 1pm to 5pm. For further information, please visit pwpl.org.