A showcase of artistic creations by Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild’s 2023 Artists-in-Residence participants including writers, performers, filmmakers, visual and multimedia artists.
Austen Camille
with one ear towards the river, with one eye to the land
Currently installed on Tinker Street in the village of Woodstock, this outdoor sculpture installation by Byrdcliffe Artist-in-Resident Austen Camille was originally created for the Columbia Land Conservancy’s preserve, Greenport, just north of Hudson.
Curated by Julie Heffernan, Pixerina Witcherina Magisterium brings together the work of Joan Bankemper, Ruth Marten and Jenny Lynn McNutt in a conversation about slant authority, languages of the absurd, and the abundant pleasures of too muchness.
Ford Crull continues to explore the expressive power of personal and cultural symbols in a series of densely painted and vividly colored compositions. Crull uses identifiable images such as hearts, wings, crosses, and the human figure, as well as geometrical emblems and abstract forms whose meanings are less explicit. Words, in the form of cryptic, fleeting phrases, also animate Crull’s pictorial world.
A survey of artworks inspired by dolls, this exhibition includes works by contemporary artists in a variety of mediums including sculpture, painting, installation, film, and photography, alongside examples of historic dolls and dolls found in popular culture with works ranging from dolls presented as social commentary to whimsical, metaphorical, magical, beautiful, and even terrifying examples of dolls.
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