WELCOME TO THE WOODSTOCK BYRDCLIFFE GUILD

Instagram Live event Wednesday, May 27 at 11 am with Byrdcliffe Artist-in- Residence Program Manager James Adelman and Assistant Program Manager Erika Kari McCarthy, hosted by Exhibitions Director Karlyn Benson. James and Erika will discuss the Byrdcliffe Artist Residency and their own work. Viewers will be able to comment and ask questions. The live conversation will be happening on Instagram @air_byrdcliffe and @woodstock_byrdcliffe_guild - please join us!

Images: James Adelman, Chocolate Mint, oil on canvas, 24" x 24” and Erika Kari McCarthy, laid to rest, 2020, temporary installation (copper wire, seed pods, vines, ice, pond flora)
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Susanna Ronner discovered monotypes in 2017, thanks to designer/artist Milton Glaser. She found a new freedom in printmaking, which rekindled her early roots as an artist. A life long career as a professional graphic designer complemented this new medium and creative passion. Ronner has recently done graphic design work for Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild and is a longtime Woodstock resident. @susannaronner_art has come to recognize that her visual work reflects the role that art, dance, and music has had in her life — in design, it’s how elements (type, image, white space) communicate on a page and how a viewer engages with it —and in her monotypes — how disparate pieces dance around, bringing one’s eye to specific spots in relation to others in a constant round of energetic connection. website: susannaronner.art
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images: In Quietude series, 2020, monotype collage, 7" x 5"; Untitled, 2020, moveable collagraph, 28" x 22"; Untitled, 2020, moveable collagraph, 28" x 22"; Untitled, 2020, monotype/moveable collagraph, 17" x 15"; In Quietude series, 2020, monotype collage, 7" x 5"
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Byrdcliffe exhibition photographer and artist member John Kleinhans has been active in photography since 1965 when he set up his first darkroom in New York City. Kleinhans moved to Woodstock from New York City in 1979 and since has been active in local arts organizations. He, along with his wife, painter Paula Nelson, is on the Board of the Woodstock School of Art. He has served as Chairman of the Woodstock Artists Association and has been on the Board of the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Commercial specialities include portraiture, art, architecture, and product photography. Kleinhans has also been active in drawing and painting. He exhibits widely and has published two books; An Image of Monhegan and Woodstock Landscapes. Currently, he is collaborating on upcoming exhibitions at the Historical society of Woodstock and the Woodstock School of Art.
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Images: Brush 1, archival pigment print, 18" x 12"; Brush 6, archival pigment print, 18" x 12";
Brush 5, archival pigment print, 18" x 12"; Brush 4, archival pigment print, 18" x 12"
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Byrdcliffe artist member and Woodstock resident Michael Valenti spent the better part of three decades working at The New York Times as an award winning Editorial Designer and Art Director. In 2004, he moved permanently to the Catskills with his wife Linda to focus full time on his first loves, drawing and painting. Valenti's work alternates capriciously between representation and abstraction. His work has been included in numerous exhibitons in and around Woodstock. He was born in Cannes, France and grew up in Queens, NY. He is a graduate of the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. @valenti_mf
Images: Untitled, 2019, oil on linen, 36" x 36"; grid 1aa, 2020, oil on canvas, 20” x 20”; still life, 2014, oil on wood panel, 6” x 6”
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Photographs by Michael Knauth: Still Life via the Byrdcliffe Shop, 2019, archival pigment print, 8.25" x 14.5"; Spring Harvest, 2018, archival pigment print, 10" x 15";
Horned Melons and Green Grapes, 2020, archival pigment print, 8.75" x 13.5"
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After a long career in academia, Michael Knauth retired to his weekend home in Woodstock. Looking for a creative outlet and having recently joined the board of the Center for Photography at Woodstock, he chose photography which has now become a passion. Knauth's images, which are inspired by the long tradition of still life painting, attempt to reinterpret the genre through the use of modern photography techniques, especially through the use of color, texture, light and shadow.
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