The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, together with friends of Calvin Grimm, present CALVIN GRIMM · Studio Selects on Saturday and Sunday, July 19 and 20, 2025, 11 am – 5 pm at the Byrdcliffe Barn, 485 Upper Byrdcliffe Road, Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock, NY. Curated by Susana Leval and Sylvia Leonard Wolf, this special solo exhibition features paintings from Calvin’s archive housed in his hand-built home studio in Shady, NY. The exhibit is a celebration of Calvin’s lifelong career in abstract expressionism and as a fixture of the Woodstock artistic community. Calvin’s work draws on his years of wilderness exploration and education around the world, encompassing the Alaskan and Yucatan coasts, the wildlands of Wyoming, the depths of the ocean and cosmos, and the Lascaux and Chauvet cave paintings found in southern France. Reception Saturday and Sunday, 1 pm–3 pm.
More information: 845-679-2079

Reception both days: 1 – 3 PM

Byrdcliffe Barn, 485 Upper Byrdcliffe Road, Byrdcliffe Arts Colony, Woodstock, NY

ABOUT CALVIN GRIMM:

Calvin Grimm is an American abstract expressionist painter and environmentalist, known for his large-scale canvases and installations inspired by his experiences in nature and the wilderness. He has a long history of exploring and working in pristine natural environments, including Alaska, Wyoming, and the Yucatan, which heavily influence his artistic vision and practice. According to art historian and curator Robert Rosenblum, Grimm’s deep relationship with nature is reflected in “experiences of the spiritual, transcendental, mysterious” in his paintings and artworks. Calvin Grimm has been awarded the Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant, the Phoebe and Belmont Towbin Award, and the Ann Cox Chambers Award, and his paintings are in many public and private collections.

“Grimm does not render the flower; he renders the force that drives it. The beauty of nature is not so much to be found in the individual stone or tree or stream, but in the dynamic and unceasing exchange of energy between them.” -Mikhail Horowitz, Woodstock Times

“His extensive wilderness experience provides him with voluptuous subject matter which he treats with a light, energetic touch.” -Helen A. Harrison, New York Times

“His work comes from a biomorphic expressive abstraction which he carries into his own energetic and richly inventive mode.” -Sara Lynn Henry, Distinguished Professor of Art History, Emerita, Drew University