Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild

Andrew Lyght | Touch Wood • curated by Osi Audu
2025-06-08 12:00 - 2025-07-20 17:00 UTC | Kleinert-James Gallery, 34 Tinker St, Woodstock, NY, 12498, United States
The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is pleased to announce Touch Wood, an exhibition curated by Osi Audu featuring the constructed paintings of artist Andrew Lyght. The exhibition will be on view June 8 – July 20, 2025.

Seph Rodney in Conversation with Andrew Lyght & Osi Audu
2025-06-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Kleinert-James Gallery, 34 Tinker St, Woodstock, NY, 12498, United States
Art writer Seph Rodney will moderate a discussion with artist Andrew Lyght and exhibition curator Osi Audu about the exhibition “Touch Wood.” $10: tickets available at: https://bit.ly/rodneylyghtaudu

Seph Rodney, PhD is a regular contributor to The New York Times, and a former senior critic and opinions editor for Hyperallergic. He has also written on art for CNN, NBC, Art in America, Art Forum, The Guardian, and several other publications. In 2020 he won the Rabkin Arts Journalism prize and in 2022 won the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. He is also a curator of contemporary art exhibitions, including co-curating Get in the Game, the largest show that the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has undertaken, which opened October 2024 and will travel to other venues.
Andrew Lyght’s works combine drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation art. Through matching industrial elements with vibrant colors and smooth geometric shapes, Lyght transforms hard-edge, functional construction objects into artworks that are graceful and lyrical.
The work of Nigerian-American artist Osi Audu focuses on the dualism of form and void, the tangible and intangible. Audu is a recipient of the 2020 New York Foundation for the Arts award (NYSCA/ NYFA Artist Fellowship); Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant 2018/2019; a Wellcome Trust Commission and purchase award, 2002; and a South East Arts Grant for a Mural, Maidstone, England, UK, 1997, among other awards.
Tickets $10
Purchase tickets: https://bit.ly/rodneylyghtaudu

King of Lawns: a reading of a new play by Marc Wolf
2025-06-08 15:00 - 17:00 | Byrdcliffe Theatre, 380 Upper Byrdcliffe Rd, Woodstock, NY, 12498, United States
Directed by Beth Ryan Troxell

Matt has not spoken with his sister Ruth for years, but her imprisonment for environmental terrorism forces an unwelcome reunion. Ruth has no patience for Matt’s lawyerly approach to solving the world’s problems, while Matt abhors Ruth’s use of violence and her acceptance of a devastating consequence of her imprisonment: separation from her young son Sky. Sky’s uncertain future pushes Matt and Ruth to search for new ways to create change, as they attempt to heal both their immediate family and an earth spinning dangerously out of control.
Marc Wolf’s solo performance pieces have been presented nationally and internationally. He won an Obie Award and was nominated for the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for the Off-Broadway production of his Another American: Asking and Telling at The New Group, directed by Joe Mantello. Another American was revived at the DR2 Theatre in New York and was filmed under the title Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, starring Marc, directed by John Walsh and Mary Harron, and produced by Michael Eisner and Daryl Roth. Marc was commissioned by McCarter Theatre to write and perform The Road Home: Re-Membering America, which was produced at McCarter Theatre and New York Theatre Workshop’s Summer Residency directed by Emily Mann, and at Huntington Theatre and Geva Theatre directed by David Schweizer. He performed his play This Blessed Plot, co-written with Robert Westfield, at Weston Playhouse and New York Theatre Workshop’s Summer Residency, directed by Joanna Settle. Recently he has appeared with the Maude Adams Theatre Hub in Casa Valentina and God of Carnage. On television, he has appeared on The Sopranos, Law & Order and as Brent Lawrence/Marian Crane on Guiding Light. In addition to the Obie Award, Marc is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts awards and has won the Helen Hayes, GLADD, IRNE, Garland and Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards. Another American is published in the anthology Political Stages: Plays that Shaped a Century. Marc is a graduate of Williams College, where he majored in Political Science and Theatre. He is currently Director of Horticulture and Environmental Stewardship at Mountain Top Arboretum in Tannersville, NY.
Tickets: $10 members, $15 not-yet members
This performance will take place at the Byrdcliffe Theatre at 380 Upper Byrdcliffe Rd in Woodstock, NY.

Part of the Round the Bend Theater Company script reading series. The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is pleased to collaborate with Round the Bend Theatre Company in presenting a series of new plays. Each selected play will be read by professional actors in front of a live audience with the playwright engaging with the audience at the conclusion of the performance.

Advance tickets available: https://bit.ly/45Lccx5
