Gallery 495

About the Gallery
Gallery 495 is a contemporary art gallery located at 495 Main Street, Catskill, New York, owned and directed by Mike Mosby, a Hudson Valley native. The gallery exhibits both local, national, and international artists working across various artistic mediums and disciplines. This fall Gallery 495 is pleased to welcome art enthusiasts from across the Hudson Valley and beyond. As an evocative new exhibition space challenging the region's burgeoning tastes. 

Gallery 495 is located in a newly renovated industrial complex, formerly a trophy factory and automobile shop. Breathing new life into the edifice, Gallery 495 blends the village’s small town heritage with a contemporary flair. Mike Mosby brings a local touch with unique insight into the regions needs and burgeoning tastes. Having worked as a curator in Hudson Valley for several years, with projects spanning from the Capital Region to New York City, Mosby has made it a mission to celebrate a diverse group of multigenerational artists. Gallery 495 plans to make Catskill, NY a significant and meaningful arts destination.

About the Presentation
Gallery 495 will debut at Independent with a solo presentation featuring work by Ellon Gibbs. Gibbs, a 29-year-old artist from Brownsville, NY, brings a striking new body of work that explores the primal relationship between humanity and nature—raw, unfiltered, and urgent.

Gibbs' paintings feel both ancient and contemporary, existing in an enigmatic space that is unplaceable yet deeply familiar. His figures are locked in moments of survival—running, attacking, clinging to life—set against landscapes saturated in color, almost aflame. The unseen presence of fire and destruction hints at an underlying unraveling, a reflection of societal fractures and looming crisis.

Subtle yet unflinching, Gibbs' work offers a brutal commentary on contemporary life. His dystopian environments speak to a learned disconnect—between ourselves and nature, between our food sources, between our fellow humans. Growing up in the populated architecture of New York City, he reflects on the paradox of urban life: millions living side by side, yet isolated within their own apartments or screens.

Within the chaos, there is a call for return, a return to something instinctual, rooted in our mammalian nature. This series, while dark and evocative of end times, suggests a path forward: a reckoning with what we’ve lost and what we might reclaim.