You Again | June 24 to July 31, 2021
Miles McEnery Gallery

With Pedro Barbeito, Jackie Gendel, Elliott Green, Josephine Halvorson, Fabian Marcaccio, Tom McGrath, Tracy Miller, Ann Pibal, and Eric Wolf.
Curated by Franklin Evans

Inspired by Debra Jo Immergut’s novel.

Stuart Farmery, Zach Neven, Eric Wolf | July 3, 2021 to July 25th, 2021
Art Austerlitz

Curated by Ryan Turley, director of Art Austerlitz

Art Austerlitz is part of the Austerlitz Historical Society

The Magic Garden | February 20-April 25 2021
LABspace, Hillsdale, NY

Inspired by the 70s children’s tv program of the same name, The Magic Garden is a fully-immersive environment of nature scenes and woodland creatures depicted through painting, ceramics, sculpture, and installation. We welcome this celebration of life and rebirth as a respite from this covid winter, a balm to carry us through to a healthier spring.

Featuring:

Alexander Ross, Amy Lincoln, Amy Talluto, Ann Wolf, Audrey Francis, Betsy Friedman, Brantner DeAtley, Eric Wolf, Jennifer Coates, Joel Longenecker, Julie Evans, Katharine Umsted, Leslie Carmin, Philip Knoll, Undine Brod

With additional small works from Allison Hester, Brent Owens, Jenn Brehm, Jennifer Johnson, Jeremy Taylor, Jon Cowan, Kate Minford, Kristen Palazzo, Linda Stillman.

Landscape Re-Imagined | Spring 2021
Claverack Free Library
Hours: Mon & Wed: 1–7PM / Fri: 1-5PM
Sat, Tues & Thurs: 10:30AM–2PM

In bringing together the artists for this exhibit our intention was to allow viewers the opportunity to contemplate what landscape can be as seen through an artists’ vision and interpretation.

All of us are fortunate enough to live in an area blessed by endlessly satisfying and visually rich landscape vistas. The mighty Hudson River, the beautiful Catskills, or the nearby rolling hills and rich forests provide most of us with wonderful views whenever we leave home and travel a few miles.

Traditionally the subject matter ‘landscape’ in Western as well as non-Western cultures has had many iterations, in addition to a ‘plein air’ (working outdoors from direct observation) point of view. To name a few: it can be romanticized and idealized, such as the great Hudson River school of painters in the 19th Century; it can be a complete fantasy variation, such as in the work of Charles Burchfield, who painted watercolors of the sounds of the forests; it can be interpreted to represent aspects of personal memory, as per Andrew Wyeth, or as inspiration moving towards abstraction as in the work of J.M.W. Turner and James Whistler. Albrecht Durer chose a microcosmic view of the details of landscape while Paul Cezanne devoted himself to restructuring the visual world of shapes. And let’s not forget how beautifully the traditional Chinese landscape artists represented a roadway of several miles with one simple vertical ink line on a page.

Many of the artists in this exhibit are viewing landscape through one of those lenses in very diverse and interesting ways. In addition, as the works hang in proximity to each other, a conversation of sorts takes place between the works through both similar and different concerns.

We both felt a great deal of enjoyment in researching the project and assembling the works, and we hope library patrons will enjoy exploring the works too.

Cynthia Carlson and Jean Feinberg, co-curators