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Information and downloadable images related to upcoming events and Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild classes and programs. Media are invited to download text and/or images for use in print and electronic publications. For past press information: 2010 Press Archive, 2009 Press Archive, 2008 Press Archive, 2007 Press Archive or 2006 Press Archive. For more information, contact Lu Ann Bielawa Program Assistant, events[at]woodstockguild.org or call, [845] 679-2079. |
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AugustGary Stephan‘Painting And’Exhibition Dates: August 7 thru September 12, 2010 An exhibition of the recent paintings, videos, and photographs of Gary Stephan will be on view at the Kleinert/James Arts Center from Saturday, August 7 through September 12, 2010. Gary Stephan ‘Painting And’ will open with a public reception Saturday, August 7 from 4:00-6:00 pm. The artist will give a talk amidst his work, followed by a discussion, on Sunday, September 5th at 4:00 in the Kleinert/James Arts Center. Heather Hutchison, the curator of ‘Painting And’, remarks:
Gary Stephan, photo by Suzanne Joelson Gary Stephan’s paintings insist on abstraction while feeling like pictures of real places. Peter Schjeldahl wrote in an essay for Cultureport.com, “Stephan deploys catchy, evocative shapes in illusionistic space, where they often behave to the eye as if possessed of natural gravity or buoyancy. He sets perception and metaphor in quivering tension, subtly and delightfully. We savor their interactions as if they were characters in a play or film.” In 2005 Stephan made his first video, “35 Second Elevator”. He now carries a pocket-size point and shoot camera recording “what reasonable people have the good sense to ignore.”
Gary Stephan, Painting of Paintings (light corners), 2009, Acrylic on Canvas, 76” x 86” With a career beginning in the mid-sixties, Stephan has been the focus of countless solo exhibitions in Europe and here in the U.S., notably at Mary Boone Gallery, Hirschl and Adler Modern, Margo Leavin, and Daniel Weinberg Gallery. His numerous group exhibitions include shows at The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and The New Museum. Gary Stephan’s work is included in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and The Museum of Modern Art among others. He has been selected for awards and honors from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, The National Endowment of the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a long time resident of Stone Ridge, NY and Manhattan. A full color catalog will accompany the exhibition. IMAGES SUITABLE FOR PRINTING ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST SeptemberGuided Walking Tour of Byrdcliffe Arts ColonyA Second Saturdays Event!Date: Saturday, September 11, 2010
Join us for a free tour of the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony and learn about the history of one of the oldest arts colonies in the United States. The guided tour lasts about ninety minutes. Hosted by Carla Smith. The Byrdcliffe Arts Colony sits on 300 wooded acres on Mount Guardian just outside the hamlet of Woodstock, NY and is comprised of 30 unique, picturesque buildings on country pathways. The highlight of the tour is White Pines, the 7,000 square foot Arts & Crafts style 1903 home of the Whitehead family, founders of the colony. White Pines is the quintessential example of the Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Style based on the value of hand craftsmanship living in harmony with nature, and is only open to the public a few times each year, and will be open to visitors 1-3 pm. Caravel QuartetDate Sunday, September 12, 2010 The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is pleased to present the Caravel Quartet, in a performance featuring the repertoire of Ukrainian composers, at the Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY on Sunday, September 12 at 2 pm. Tickets are $15/$10 WBG members. For more information or to order tickets contact the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, 845.679.2079 or go to www.woodstockguild.org. The Caravel Quartet, comprised of violinists Amie Weiss and Kristi Helberg, violist Miranda Sielaff and cellist Jane Cords O’Hara, officially formed in 2008. Having played together for years in various combinations, all four are members of the dynamic New York City–based orchestra The Knights, a group whose recent engagements have included two recordings for the Sony Classical label and performances at the Dresden Musikfestspiele.
Caravel Quartet (l–r) Amie Weiss (violin), Miranda Sielaff (viola), Jane Cords–O’Hara (cello), Kristi Helberg (violin) A love for performing and working together that sprang from the camaraderie of The Knights soon inspired these players to come together as a string quartet. The four musicians respectively have diverse experience in non–western and folk music styles – North Indian classical music studies, performances with Yo–Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, American folk and old–time music, experimental and multi-genre collaborations – all of which add to the breadth of the Caravel's repertoire and curiosity. The Caravel Quartet has performed at the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch in upstate NY, the Cornelia St. Café’s Serial Underground, the Winterfest Concert Series in State College, PA, and Manhattan's Museum of Biblical Art (Mobia) as part of a continuing residency in its Hearing the Sacred series. The group also recorded an album titled Night Has Descended, the musicians' own arrangements of children’s songs and lullabies from around the world. During 2010–11 the Caravel Quartet will feature repertoire of Ukrainian composers, which they will perform at Mobia in conjunction with the exhibit “The Glory of Ukraine” and at the Ukrainian Institute. Other projects include the premiere of a work by composer Dorothy Hindman entitled “Road to Damascus,” which was commissioned by the quartet. This concert is sponsored in part with a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency. 2009 & 2010 Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Pollock–Krasner Fellows ExhibitionOrganized by Exhibition Committee member, Katharine UmstedExhibition Dates: September 19 – October 17, 2010 The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild proudly presents the Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Pollock–Krasner Fellows Exhibition, curated by Katharine Umsted. This special exhibition features a selection of works from artists who were awarded Pollock–Krasner Foundation Fellowships during the 2009 and 2010 Byrdcliffe Summer Artist in Residence Programs. There will be an opening reception brunch on Sunday, September 19 from noon – 2 pm at the Kleinert/James Arts Center, 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock. The reception is free and open to the public. The exhibition will run through October 17, 2010. For the past four years the Pollock–Krasner Foundation has underwritten a Fellowship program for the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild’s Artist in Residence Program. The grant provided fellowships for five visual artists each year, plus studio visits and critiques with a visiting Master Artist, and also funded a public lecture by each Master Artist. The 2010 Master Artist was Joan Snyder, a 2007 MacArthur Award recipient and a resident of Woodstock. The 2009 Master Artist was Gregory Amenoff. Work by the Pollock–Krasner fellows from both years will be presented in this show. Opened in 1903, the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony was placed on the National Register of Historic sites in 1979 for its architectural and historic significance. Today it supports a wide range of artists, including writers, composers, painters and sculptors. Byrdcliffe artists in residence stay at the historic Villetta Inn – a spacious rustic building with communal dining and living rooms. Each resident has his or her own bedroom and separate studio space. Residents are chosen by a committee of professionals in the arts. The major criteria for acceptance are the quality of work samples and an indication of serious commitment to one’s field of endeavor. Applicants must submit a written application and support materials. More information on the program can be found at: www.woodstockguild.org. 2009 & 2010 Byrdcliffe Artist in Residence Pollock–Krasner FellowsGwen Fabricant lives and works in New York City. Educated at Cooper Union Art School and Brooklyn College Gwen has been the recipient of many grants, awards and fellowships including a Bogliasco Fellowship in Italy, Joan Mitchell and Elizabeth grants and residencies at Yaddo and MacDowell. Susan Harrington lives, works and teaches in Fort Worth, Texas. Susan’s work incorporates silhouette drawings of geese, dogs and bears on overlapping sheets of vellum with opaque felt cutouts of hands, creating an illusion of the shadow puppets from childhood memories. In her interpretation of subjects she astonishes with the freshness of invention and wit, or, when the subject demands it, profound drama.
“Etruscan Cat”, Susan Harrington Essye Klempner is a native of Louisville, KY and now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She will be starting an MFA course at Hunter College in the fall. Essye will be participating in the Byrdcliffe AIR program for the third time in 2010. Katerina Lanfranco lives and works in NYC. She is the recipient of the 2010–2011 N.E.A and US/Japan Friendship Commission Artist Fellowship to study traditional arts in Japan for 6 months. Her work combines nature, fantasy and science. Having had many one–person exhibitions in New York and California, Katerina’s work is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
“Carnivorous Beauty #5”, Katrina Lanfranco Nathania Rubin currently lives in New York City where she was born. She makes psychologically and philosophically dense animations. She is also a musician. Nathania has shown widely in the US and also in Germany, Switzerland and Romania. In addition to the residency at Byrdcliffe she was a recent resident at the Santa Fe Art Institute. Cate Holt is an abstract painter and also makes temporary installations. Last year she participated in the SVA Summer Residency in Painting and Mixed Media. A graduate of the Hartford Art School, she works in Brooklyn NY and lives in Putnam County, NY.
“You”, Cate Holt Joshua Kaplan lives and works in Queens, New York. He earned his BFA from Syracuse University in 2008 and will be attending Hunter College for his MFA in the Fall. His work has been exhibited in New York City, Italy as well as throughout the USA. Lindsay Packer is a New York–based artist whose work ranges from collage to installation and writing. Having received an MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in Fiber and Material she was a 2002 recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in installation art. Packer traveled to India to study site–specific ephemeral imagery in both sacred and secular contexts.
“Get In Line”, Lindsay Packer Heather Ramsdale lives and works in Philadelphia. A sculptor and recent MFA graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Heather was a Joan Mitchell Award nominee in 2010. Laura Splan is based in Brooklyn, NY. Using many media Laura’s work investigates perceptions of beauty and horror, comfort and discomfort. She uses anatomical and medical imagery as well as her body as a source to explore the dualities and our ambivalence towards the human body. She often combines the visual vocabulary of science and biology with that of domesticity and decorum. OctoberGuided Walking Tour of Byrdcliffe Arts ColonyA Second Saturdays Event!Date: Saturday, October 9, 2010
Join us for a free tour of the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony and learn about the history of one of the oldest arts colonies in the United States. The guided tour lasts about ninety minutes. Hosted by Carla Smith. The Byrdcliffe Arts Colony sits on 300 wooded acres on Mount Guardian just outside the hamlet of Woodstock, NY and is comprised of 30 unique, picturesque buildings on country pathways. The highlight of the tour is White Pines, the 7,000 square foot Arts & Crafts style 1903 home of the Whitehead family, founders of the colony. White Pines is the quintessential example of the Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Style based on the value of hand craftsmanship living in harmony with nature, and is only open to the public a few times each year, and will be open to visitors 1-3 pm. |
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