Hudson Valley contemporary photographers in dialogue with historic Byrdcliffe artists

Since the artist-founders of Byrdcliffe landed in Woodstock in1902, artists have sought refuge in the natural beauty of the Hudson Valley.  Originally designed to combat the societal ills brought on by a series of industrial revolutions, Byrdcliffe’s founders created a utopian community where artists embraced solace and inspiration in nature and cultivated a reverence for the handmade. This tradition continues, as the artists represented in Sharing the Space look to the natural world for stability, for a connection to what is real, and for a sense of awe and wonder. This exhibition brings together historic landscape paintings from the Byrdcliffe collection, in a dialogue across time with landscape photographs from contemporary photographers, all sharing the space of the Hudson Valley.