Sag Harbor - Romany Kramoris Gallery is proudly exhibiting four prominent painters of the "Academy," an in-jest, self-named larger group of painters on the East End. These four run the gamut in the realist styles.

Nancy Achenbach, a classic practitioner in oils, is a contemporary realist of the broad East End landscape tradition painting evocative scenes of stirring emotions. She seeks to capture the moods of mystery in the brief minutes between day and night, l'heure bleu and l'heure rosé, the fleeting minutes of dawn and dusk, the intangibility of these ethereal misty foggy moments, before the sun or moon whisks them away. Entranced, dreamlike, her time frame is of a momentary suspension.

Through her soft-realism Pingree Loucheim glides us into the "dream of the Hamptons" - the country. Colorful chickens peck in the yards, gigantic, luscious tomatoes fly over the gardens and "Tea In the Manor" has a table layed in a starched white tablecloth with homemade cupcakes and goodies. Tucked in an alcove overlooking the greening garden of springtime the curtains are pulled back and the 1st twigs of forced forsythia in a hand-thrown pottery vase deck the table. Fresh and inviting. Loucheim also presents another stark version of "the Henderson House" on an overcast winter's night.

Richard Udice has become more moody. His skies are rolling and tumbling with threatening or brightening clouds. Either situation casts suggestive and mysterious shadows. Something's coming, something's out there. Spatial vastness and boundlessness go beyond his canvas. This series has a new breath and elegance!

Joan Tripp has surprised us this year by hurling herself into outerspace. Overwhelmingly excited and re-inspired by the images of the Hubble Space Telescope, she has captured the gaseous, ephemeral, ethereal delicacy and lightness of the nebulae as well as presenting her traditional localscapes.

This charming and unique show, with many unique elements, is colorful and happy. From April 7 to April 28, reception Saturday, April 9, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Romany Kramoris Gallery is open Thursday through Monday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and open late on weekends on Main Street in Sag Harbor.