A.i.R. EXHIBITION | Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild | 2023

Susanna Ronner Design

BYRDCLIFFE ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE EXHIBITION

Kleinert/James Center for theArts

36Tinker Street

Woodstock, NY12498

April 29 - June 11, 2023

Susanna Ronner Design

Malin Abrahamsson is an inter-disciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She maintains an active arts practice and is the recipient of numerous public commissions, residencies, grants, and awards. In the fall of 2022, Malin was selected as a 2-year Works in Public fellow: a fully funded commission and public art program offered by The Arts Students League of New York. Born and raised in northern Sweden, Malin received her BFA with an honorable mention from The School of Visual Arts in 1998.

Malin Abrahamsson, Saccharin, Ceramics, mixed media, 12” x 6” x 8”

Malin Abrahamsson

Tyler Allen is a conceptual artist from Houston, TX with an MFA in Integrated Practices from Pratt Institute (2022) & a BFA from Texas Southern University (2019). Working in a variety of mediums, Allen focuses on collage, printmaking, and assemblage as he utilizes the Black image in many different forms to create and uplift the presence and traditions that exist within the multifaceted Black experience. In exploring both historical and contemporary society, and the role that Black people have played in various circumstances, Tyler Allen allows for the magic, strength, and willpower of Black culture to be displayed proudly. While imputing motifs from his personal history, Allen creates juxtapositions that are tied to sports, pop-culture, and environmental circumstances that are not only unique to the artist, but are also shared in many Black communities.

Tyler Allen, AllMyLove, Gesso transfer, acrylic, oil pastel 18” x 18”

Tyler Allen

Kerri Ammirata

Kerri Ammirata is an artist who lives and works in Ridgewood, Queens. She earned her MFA from Boston University in 2010.  She is the recipient of the following awards and residencies: Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock (2022), The Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, New York (2019), Ne'Na Contemporary Art Space/Monfai Cultural Center Residency, Chiang Mai, Thailand (2019), NYCT Cultural Advocacy & Equity Program, New York (2015); Vermont Studio Center, Clowes Full Fellowship (2012). Recent exhibitions include Gertie’s Window Project, NYC; CityLimits, Park Place Gallery, NYC; TheScenic Route,1969 Gallery, NYC; AlongtheMTrain, The Yard, NYC; Horology, Jack Hanley, NYC; WinterGroup Show, Orgy Park, NYC.

Referencing sacred geometry and mathematics, her paintings dissolve boundaries and disintegrate shapes into hypnotic, rhythmic marks. Each work is made with her invented technique of paint carving. The surfaces are formed through the accrual of hundreds of layers of acrylic paint which she then carve into with woodworking and printmaking tools; a ritualistic action that is both aggressive and meditative. Although the work is carefully planned, in the moment of execution, the relief carving dictates the final look of the piece. These contemplative movements create a sacred space within the studio in which to find truth and transcendence within each work.

Kerri Ammirata, BlackHole, 12” x 12”, Acrylic on wood

Austen Camille is a Canadian-American artist, naturalist and writer. Camille received their MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art and Architecture in 2020. Alongside their work as an artist, Camille also works in the fields of construction and landscaping; in each endeavor, Camille seeks to create complex and reciprocal relationships between the built and natural environments. Camille’s work has been commissioned and exhibited in a diverse range of landscapes, from the northern Wyoming rivers to the high desert of eastern Oregon, to, most recently, a farmer’s field in southern Wisconsin and a riparian zone preserve in the Hudson Valley. Alongside their art practice, Camille’s past projects include orchestrating an interdisciplinary conversation series across Temple University, creating and hosting a podcast called 'Our Shared Field' in order to bring artists into conversation with people from outside of the arts, and a number of more personal collaborations with practitioners across the sciences. Camille has attended artist residencies at Wormfarm Institute (WI), Jentel (WY), Tongue River (WY), Pine Meadow Ranch (OR), and Byrdcliffe (NY).

Austen Camille, thepathbecomestheground(again),2022 Archival pigment print, 5 x 7 inches each

Jesse Capozzi is a multidisciplinary artist currently located in Brooklyn, where he received his BFA from Pratt Institute last spring. His work serves to celebrate and satirize elements of routine and relationship that he finds strongly pacifying. As of late he has been most interested in the impact a machine’s factory settings can have on a societal aesthetic, hilarious institutional attachment, and the current generation of touch screen interfaces designed for children under seven years of age. He works primarily in oil, video, and sculpture.

Jesse Capozzi

Jesse Capozzi, InstitutionalWistingandShame,ViewofStage,Oil,graphite, colored pencil on panel, 2023 19” x 28” x 3” inches

Ari Chaves is a painter based in Brooklyn who is originally from Upstate New York. Chaves works primarily in oils but also incorporates acrylic, latex paint, paper and cardboard into their practice. The medium of paint itself is significant to the work in that it relates to a transient and ephemeral experience. Growing up in about a dozen living spaces all in close proximity, their understanding of “home” has always been a concept opposed to a location. Today their work collages actual and imagined spaces and histories with visual and emotional material collected from different sites and points in time. Chaves paints to explore scenes preserved by the potency of memory, while possessing the scope to intervene with re-written or newly imagined outcomes.

Ari Chaves, UpinSmokeattheCountyFair, Acrylic, paper, gouache on canvas, 36” x 46”

Sarah Crofts

Sarah Crofts is a multi-disciplinary artist working with time-based processes to examine power dynamics embedded in physical and social landscapes. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute and her Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College. In the fall of 2022, NARS Foundation in Brooklyn presented LastMile, her first solo exhibition at an established art space. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions and screening in the US and abroad, at spaces including Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, PA, John and June Allcott Gallery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, Athens Printmaking Art Center, Greece, Cosmos Arles Books, Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France and Liberia Central Contemporánea, Bogotá, Colombia. Crofts’ work has been published in the photography journal Ain’t Bad #15. Her work is in private collections in New York, Bogotá, Colombia and Bologna, Italy.

Sarah Crofts, WindowPanes, Lumen print, 16” x 20”

Melissa Hyatt Foss

Melissa Hyatt Foss is a musician, instrument-maker, composer and teaching artist hailing from Maryland and Vermont. After receiving her undergraduate degree in Art History at James Madison University she relocated to Buenos Aires, Argentina where she studied and developed her career as a performer, researcher, and teaching artist for over a decade. She completed her master’s degree in Musical Creation, New Technologies and Traditional Arts at the National University of Argentina, specializing in the recreation of Pre-Colonial sound artifacts of the Americas and electroacoustic composition.  For seven years she was a soloist, touring in Argentina and around the world, with the Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and New Technologies. Melissa has cultivated an interdisciplinary practice that takes shape in hand-built musical instruments and organic electronica.  Her work explores sound, its ability to affect consciousness, and its power to generate moments of collective effervescence.Her composition “Hanblecheyapi,” which was composed using a collection of her own recreations of historical instruments from the three Americas, was one of the International Rostrum of Composers’ 12 recommended works in 2018 and has since been broadcast by the BBC and other radio programs across Europe and Asia. She is currently based in Baltimore, Maryland, where she is a Resident Artist with the Creative Alliance.

Melissa Hyatt Foss, MushroomDoubleFlute(top left),SnakeDoubleFlute(top right), FlowerFlute(bottom),2022, Earthenware, oxidies, 10.25” x 2.5” x 2.5”, 12.5” x 5” x 1.25”, 10.5” x 2.25” x 2.25”

Peter Fulop

Peter Fulop studied ceramics in Hódmezovásárhely, Hungary. Fulop set up his studio in Ireland, and furthered his training in the UK, China, Korea, and Japan, where he became Koie Ryoji's student. Fulop's work can be found in many private and public collections including, Archie Bray Ceramic Foundation, MT, USA (2013) and Freeborn & Peter’s LLP, Chicago, (2007) in USA; Mungyeong Ceramic Museum (2010-12) and Korea Ganjin Celadon Museum, Ganjin, (2011) in Korea; Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki (2007), INAX Corporation, Tokoname (2004) and IWCAT Collection, Tokoname (2004) in Japan; the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin (2008), the Office of Public Works, Farmleigh House, Dublin (2004) in Ireland; Ulster useum, Belfast (2011) in Northern Ireland.

Peter has received numerous Arts Council of Ireland, County Councils and Culture Ireland awards and bursaries in support of undertaking artistic residencies and for developing new work. His work was featured in several books, catalogues, magazines and newspapers, including Ceramics Ireland Magazine; Ceramic Review Magazine, UK; Irish Ceramics Book by John Goode, Millcove Press, Ireland; Hands On: The Art Of Crafting In Ireland Book by Sylvia Thompson, Liberties Press, Dublin, Ireland; House and Home Magazine, and many more.

Peter Fulop, TwoSakeCups,SakeBottle,Vessel.Thrown, reduction-gas fired shino glazed clay. Cups: 3”x 2.5” Bottle: 5” x 8”, Vessel: 6” x 7.5”

Skye Gilkerson, 15°S;115°Wat14second,soundvibrations,inkonpaper,18” x 24”

Skye Gilkerson’s work in sculpture, installation, drawing, film, and collage often playfully compares human timescales with celestial cycles, and has been shown at the Pensacola Museum of Art, the Contemporary Museum of Baltimore, and FLAG Foundation in New York. She was awarded a Chenven Foundation grant, a Smack Mellon Studio Fellowship, and artist residency grants with the La Napoule Art Foundation in La Napoule, France, and Tilleard Projects on Lamu Island, Kenya. Gilkerson’s solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art was listed by the Baltimore Sun as one of the TopTenArtShowsoftheYear.

With the process of paper marbling, ink floats on the surface of water and the pattern is captured with a piece of paper, leaving behind a monoprint. For this series, the water tray rests on large speakers playing sounds of unknown origin collected by NASA and NOAA from outer space and the deep sea, vibrating the surface of the water and generating the ink swirls. The titles refer to the coordinates where the sounds are thought to emanate from, as well as the location on the audio track. The particular sound that generated this image was recorded in the deep sea.

Skye Gilkerson

David Greenwood has an MFA from Brooklyn College, where he won the Himan Brown award for fiction. His stories have appeared in Fence, Electric Literature, Tin House online, and other journals. David Greenwood throws off his grey jacket. He imagines soaring by night over all the state capitals, naming them anew: Willow. Crevasse. Mt Luminor. Mistletoe may account for his alacrity in kissing. Orogeny springs to mind. He has been compared, favorably, to an egg. The first days of his sabbatical were spent in astonishment. A faint glow may be accounted for by physical processes unrelated to personal greatness. The card outside his door states residentswillbetemperateofyearning. I saw “rnbw sherbet” among his receipts. Fish, science tells us, developed lungs millennia before crawling onto shore. So David Greenwood developed his craft. A simple oval is perhaps more apt than an egg. Also in his receipts was a ticket to the opening of the Ancestral Caves and Baths. Low-gravity bicycling proved unbearable. The impulse to rent a sports car because it’s your birthday isn’t always to be corrected. David Greenwood sacrificed elements of his once elaborate toilet to spend more time with loved ones. His days had seemed to pile up like the masonry of a grand edifice. He called it, privately, the Szechuan Palace Noodle Factory. Ivy establishes itself after long endurance. Character may be described as the evolution of disparate sorrows toward a unified core. Science tells us the core of black holes affects the trajectory of the “light cone,” abruptly ending time. Certain things will have to be understood as lost. He found a light blue thread in the grey jacket pocket. David Greenwood shuts his eyes and pulls.

Tristan Higginbotham is a multidisciplinary from her Tennessee Mountain Home. Currently she maintains a studio practice in Brooklyn, NY and rehabilitates birds four days a week at the Wild Bird Fund. Tristan received her BFA from Watkins College in 2018. She participated in the NYC Audubon Governors Island residency in 2019, the Stoveworks residency in 2021, and is an advocate for Bird-Safe Glass.

Higginbotham’s recent sculptures have been directly inspired by the built habitats of animals and the structures engineered by humans to simulate them in the process of care and rehabilitation. Through her work with wildlife, both in a clinic and in the field, she has become obsessed with the practice of enrichment, by which an animal’s core environmental comforts and needs are provided via an echoing of and slight mimesis of nature. The resourcefulness employed here, necessary for both the nestmakers themselves and the copycats in turn, is a driving concept that she employes when she sculpts. She begins by collecting, foraging for charged items that resonate in their evocative gestures and the history worn on their surfaces. Wood, seed pods, bird eggs, and shells are then combined, through an open-ended process of formal exploration and intuitive play, with a number of inorganic, often structural materials, such as steel wire, discarded plastic, cable ties, and wet/dry felting. Using a diverse palette of homemade adhesives, including a lard-based suet and a wood glue/dryer lint/sawdust mix, the structures are fleshed out as collaged bodies, masses not concerned with straight replication, but content as distant relatives of the natural world.

Tristan Higginbotham, DriftingSpider, Archival Pigment print, 8.5” x 11”

Sarah House works primarily with ceramic materials to creates abstract sculpture and Installation art inspired by the complex beauty of natural fractals. House earned her BFA from Temple University Tyler School of Art, and her MFA from Tulane University, graduating from both institutions with honors. She has participated in nine Artist in Residence programs both internationally as well as within the United State. House is a Lamar Windgate Fellow, a Nyberg Fellow, and a 2022 Career Advancement Grant recipient from the Center for Craft. Sarah House has been recognized globally for her work while participating in exhibitions across Europe, Asia and North America. She is currently a Visual Arts Instructor at New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts, the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. House is represented by Ann Connelly Fine Art, is a member of Baton Rouge Gallery and is a resident of 139 Mehle Studios in Old Arabi, Louisiana.

Sarah House, FruitingBodies, porcelainglaze,10” x 10” x 4”

Sarah House

Karen Hudes is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in TinHouse, the NewYorkTimes, NewYorkMagazine, TheAwland TheHairpin, among others. She earned an MFA in fiction writing at Hunter College, where she taught creative writing, and has also facilitated writing workshops at Fountain House in NYC.

Her personal essay, Diode, highlighted in the Byrdcliffe Guild 2022 AIR Exhibition, was published on ThomasPynchon.com in February 2023, and featured on the site Mad in America.

Karen Hudes

Karen Hudes

Nancy Y. Kim is a Korean-American multidisciplinary artist based out of Bologna, Italy. Her work draws from her experiences of otherness and foreignness while exploring dislocation and diasporic identity through painting, installation, and sculpture. Selected as artist-in-residence at Villa Bergerie in Huesca, Spain and Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, recent exhibitions include Foundation for Contemporary Art’s “Sonia Louise Presents” at Greene Naftali in NYC, “Brooklyn Seoul” at Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, and the Terrain Biennial in Chicago. She is a contributor to Maake Magazine, a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) Fellow, and VCCA Fellows Council member. Her works can be found in private collections across the United States and Europe.

Nancy Y. Kim, WeKeepOurGhostsCloser,Archival Inkjet Print, 16 x 20, Edition of 5

Nancy Y. Kim

Morgan King is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY working with textiles, collage and photography. They attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City, NY from 2013 - 2017 and graduated with Honors and a degree in Visual and Critical Studies. Morgan is currently pursuing their Masters in Library and Information Science at Simmons University. Their work interrogates the space between fact, fiction, and history, questioning the often arbitrary boundaries between them. Their process involves mining family archives as well as public, community centered archives and archives that collect histories of queer and trans people. In addition to making art from archival materials, They are also employed in archival settings, which has furthered their desire to understand the role of an archive on a personal and political level, as well as what it means to create one.

King expresses that “As a trans and gender non-conforming individual, everything I create takes root and filters through my own identity. As a result, I often craft combinations of images and materials that create a shared meaning despite their disparate sources, which to me represents the painful juxtaposition between nostalgia and identity.”

Morgan King, ThingsthatFly, family photographs, stitching and butterfly wings on fabric photographed in Woodstock, NY, 24” x 36”

Raghubir Kintisch

Raghubir Kintisch is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and writer born in NYC and has lived and worked in Los Angeles since 1989. They received an MFA from OTIS College of Art and Design in 2017 and a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 1976 This summer, Kintisch will be a Byrdcliffe Cottage Artist in Residence with partial funding courtesy of the Pollack-Krasner Foundation. Last year, they were a Byrdcliffe Communal Artist-in-Residence for visual arts and in 2021, a recipient of a Silver Sun Foundation residency through The Secret City - also in Woodstock, N.Y. - where they kick-started the last of four self-published books about the confluence of artistic and spiritual practice. Their two most recent and ongoing series, Sleights ofMindand FromOneTongueCameThousandsMore,consist mostly of oil paintings on paper although collage and ink paintings on paper are also included. These works explore the cumulative transformative power of fragments, abstractions, and the repetition of devotional iconography within the terrain of the trance practitioner.

Raghubir Kintisch, AccidentalCatfish,Ink on Arches Paper, 22”x 30”

Ariana Kolins is an interdisciplinary artist who makes art to process the world around her. Focusing on the unseen, she observes the beauty in the small daily moments of life, collects and transforms mundane objects into monumental and slightly absurd creations. It is her hope that through this work others will be inspired to look at their daily rituals with a new perspective. Ariana graduated with an MFA in Ceramics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has made and shown work throughout the country. Ariana currently lives in Farmington, Connecticut where she teaches Ceramics and Sculpture at Miss Porter’s School. You can see more of her work at www.arianakolins.

Ariana Kolins, InPursuitofaPerfectSphere(asampling),Dryer lint, clay

Ariana Kolins

For over 20 years, Veronica Lawlor’s elegant draftsmanship has led her around the world creating award-winning illustrations for a diverse group of clients. Her on-site reportage drawings consider the sensation of place through formal aesthetic and narrative concerns. Veronica brings those same sensibilities into the studio, creating work that is reflective of the energy and atmosphere of the locations she has documented, exploring the palimpsest of collective memory of place.

A native of New York City, Veronica is on the faculty of Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design and conducts reportage workshops worldwide. Her work has been exhibited at the United Nations, the Mystic Seaport Museum, the Society of Illustrators, 601 Artspace, Emerge Gallery, and others. In 2011 she was selected as the North American representative for the Canson Prix, and her reportage work was presented at the Louvre.

Veronica Lawlor

Veronica Lawlor, FurnaceBudding, Acrylic and collage on wood panel, 24” x 30”

Cecilia Lu is a Chinese-American artist based in NYC. Her art practice engages multi-generational and familial histories in the context of mourning and non-western healing practices. She works primarily in installations composed of ceramics, video, performance, and printmaking. She received her BFA from Cornell University. Additionally, she is currently Curatorial Assistant at Wave Hill (Bronx, NY).

Cecilia Lu Urn(FromProcession), Glazed stoneware, slip-cast computer mouse, chicken foot, ginger root, peach pit

Cecilia Lu

Weihui Lu was born in Shanghai, China, and grew up in Queens, New York. Her paintings explore the immigrant experience through personal narrative, as well as the broader environmental and psychological implications of the modern landscape. Her work has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Trestle Gallery, Site:Brooklyn, and 440 Gallery among others, and she has been awarded residencies at Santa Fe Art Institute (NM), Byrdcliffe (NY), ChaNorth (NY), and Arteles Creative Center (Finland). Lu holds a B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University.

Weihui Lu, TheEightSaints,Acrylic on linen, fabric, wood, 60" x 38"

WeiHui Lu

Danny Lulu

Danny Lulu is an artist and musician who was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he studied photography and learned to play the guitar. In 2019, he graduated with an MFA in Visual Art from Mills College in Oakland. Danny is a multidisciplinary artist who creates music, digital paintings, and animations. He integrates these into performances, films, and sculptural installations. In 2022, Danny received a Milton and Sally Avery Fellowship and was selected to be an Artist in Residence at Woodstock Byrdcliffe in Woodstock, New York. In February 2023, he completed a 6-week fellowship at MacDowell in Peterborough, New Hampshire. He currently lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island.

Danny Lulu, RainstormatByrdcliffe,2022 still from animated video

2022 AiR Program Assistant Julia Maisel-Berick created “Portrait on a Paper Quilt (Offering/Gathering)” during her two months working at Byrdcliffe. Julia likes to use repurposed materials, such as vintage lifestyle magazines, deadstock crayons, salvaged paints, and found natural objects in her work. An American Studies major at Vassar College, Julia reflects her interest in images of Americana, kitsch, mass media influence and the culture of domesticity in her compositions. During her time at Byrdcliffe, Julia’s work evolved to incorporate motifs of quilt squares, as she is fascinated with the communal heritage of quilting and the optical illusions of the patterns. She also embraced natural materials such as dried flowers, moth carcasses, and robin egg fragments to add elements of fragility and mortality.

Julia Maisel-Berick, PortraitonPaperQuilt(Offering/Gathering),Magazine collage, acrylic paint, found objects, 20.5” x 11”

Colin Mc was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. He studied Critical Geography, Relational Aesthetics, and Fine Metal Work during his undergrad at The Evergreen State College. After graduating, he spent a year traveling from Nicaragua to Chile working on bio-dynamic farms and making art with found materials. He then returned to San Francisco to study Intaglio Printmaking and Classical Realism Painting. He received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute with a focus in painting, photography, and new genres in 2020. In 2022, he received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, and was awarded a five month art residency at Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock New York. In February 2023, Collin was awarded a month long residency at The Jentel Foundation in Wyoming. He is now living and painting in an industrial loft in Philadelphia.

Colin McEachran

Colin McEachran, There’sRoomforNight,Acrylic on Yupo Paper, 40”x 26 “

Born in Rhinebeck, NY, and longtime resident of Woodstock, NY, Eliza McKenna divides her time between the Hudson Valley and New York City. After having grown up in an environment riddled with opioid abuse, her photographs have focused on profoundly personal experiences with grief and loss. She attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and received her bachelors in film studies. During her time at Wesleyan, she was a course assistant to both film and photography courses, most notably working under photographer Sasha Rudensky. She is now pursuing her masters in fine art at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. In 2021, after a long battle with a neurodegenerative disease, her father was killed by Covid-19. In an effort to makesense of this untimely loss, she began a photographic relationship with a man named Larry. Her work with Larry is ongoing.

Eliza McKenna, LarryandIintheLivingRoom, Chromogenic Print, 40” x 50”

Eliza McKenna

Amalya Megerman is multidisciplinary visual artist, working primarily between performance, installation, painting, and stained glass. Her work draws on traditional Jewish ritual, organic materials, and themes around body, anxiety, family history, and femininity. Her work probes the tensions between safety and discomfort, paranoia and vigilance, and what it means to be complicit. In doing so, she investigates and refigures the way intergenerational trauma manifests in her body.

Amalya Megerman, Home, Silicone and Rope, 5 x4’

Maurice Moore is currently a doctoral Performance Studies Candidate at the University of California-Davis. Moore’s art spans multiple disciplines including video, drawing and collage which they approach through queer Black theory incorporating archival written and visual material and re-interpreting their own past work. With inspiration from John Cage’s visual poems, Moore uses African American Vernacular/Gesture English (AAVE) to engage linguistically with the content of their work in both their video and artist statement. In the film “Clapping While Black (feat. Pan-African flag)”, Moore describes the way it “involves mark making that allows a nonbinary person such as myself, the space and freedom to push further and engage wit balancing and negotiating the joys & pains Black Queer performers experience both inside and outside African and African American Diasporas as creatives.” Moore performs this mark-making on levels both visual and verbal that brings history, theory, and their own experience together in this five minute digital video piece.

Maurice Moore, Stillfrom-ClappingWhileBlack(featPan-AfricanFlag), 5:02 min, Digital

Maurice Moore

Jesse Moy is a painter based in Bronxville NY. He has worked as a field biologist for the New York City Natural Areas Conservancy and as an ecologist and cartographer with the Wildlife Conservation Society. He is currently an MFA candidate at SUNY Purchase.

Jesse Moy

Simona Prives

Simona Prives is a Brooklyn-based visual artist whose work includes printmaking, painting, drawing, and time-based media. Having received her MFA from Pratt Institute, Prives creates animated collages that incorporate a variety of themes and materials. Her work explores the dialectic of growth and decay and examines our complex relationship between the organic and the man-made.

Prives has been awarded multiple residencies and fellowships, including the Harvestworks, Vermont Studio Center, the Santa Fe Art Institute and Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia. Prives’ work has been shown in galleries throughout New York and the United States, as well as at the China Arts Museum in Shanghai and in Tokyo, Japan.

Recently Prives was commissioned by MTA Arts & Design to create a 52 channel, site-specific video installation in Fulton Center, Lower Manhattan. Titled “Even While The Dust Moves,” the installation was displayed across the 52 large video screens within the Fulton Center. A wide range of media — including video, drawings, ink paintings, and printmaking — comprised each animated artwork within the larger whole.

Prives currently teaches art and design at Parsons, New York University and is an assistant professor at CUNY.

Simona Prives, WateroutofSunlights, Photogravure Etching, 18” x 24”

Zack Rafuls

Zack Rafuls is an artist currently residing in Queens NY. Born in Miami FL in 1992, some of his earliest accomplishments include being awarded "Most Improved" at the Jane Forman Tennis Academy Summer Camp (after weeks earlier biting another camper) and winning the 5th grade Spelling Bee at Jack D. Gordon Elementary School (only to lose in the first round of the regional competition). Since then he has received his BFA from Watkins College of Art in Nashville TN (2015), during which time he also studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a participant in the AICAD Mobility Program (2014). An interest in collaboration and community led him to found and co-curate mild climate, an artist-run space in Nashville TN, from 2015 to 2018. Recent solo exhibitions include Electric Shed, Nashville TN (2021) and Marvin Gardens, Queens NY (2022). Over the last few years, he has been one half of two-person exhibits at Usable Space, Milwaukee WI (2022); Family Exhibitions, Montreal QBC (2020); Marvin Gardens, Queens NY (2019); and Bijon Ferdowsi Gallery, Nashville TN (2017); as well as participating in various group shows in Atlanta, Brooklyn, Milwaukee, Nashville, New Orleans, and New York City. Residency experience includes Stove Works, Chattanooga TN (2021) and Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, Woodstock NY (2022). When he is not drawing at home, he works out of a studio he shares with his two studio mates: artist and partner Tristan Higginbotham and their beagle Kylee.

Zack Rafuls, SpaceMaze,Collage, Spray paint on paper, 30” x 22”

Fionn Reilly

Fionn Reilly has been photographing throughout the world for more than twenty years. Reilly studied at the London College of Communication, and is now best known for his documentary-style photography. His work has been featured in numerous publications in the United States and throughout the world, including Esquire,TheNewYorkTimes,iDMagazine,TheLosAngelesTimes, ItalianVogue,and GQ.His first monograph, Kolkata Calcutta (2017), was inspired by the films of the celebrated director Satyajit Ray and the great Indian photographer Raghubir Singh. His second book, EnglishLandscapes(2022), accompanied his solo exhibition at CPW in Kingston, NY.

Fionn Reilly, GooseberryBushwithNetCurtain,Archival pigment print, 24 “ 30”

Allison Roberts

Allison Roberts, a lens-based artist, works primarily with photography, the moving image, and immersive installations. Roberts’s work has recently been exhibited in ChineseGanJue, South China Museum; GlimpsesofaDrownedWorld, Aggregate Space Gallery (CA); Tracesofthe Future, Momentum Gallery (Poland); ROMBAK,Multimedia University (Malaysia); Movements, Moments, Target Gallery (VA); and ContemporaryLandscape, CICA Museum (South Korea). Her other recent exhibitions include solo shows at the Thelma Sadoff Center for the Arts (WI), and the Rae Cultural Centre, (Vaskjala, Estonia). She has been published in several photography journals including SHOTS,AllAboutPhoto,Pastiche,andHarborReview-an online space for poetry and art. Her experimental films have been selected for numerous international film festivals. Born and raised in Oklahoma, Roberts holds an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Allison Roberts, IDreamtofMountains,Film Still

Omar E. Saad

The physical act of moving across. Through. in proximity, at a distance over and over. Feel through my days, months, years. Infinite change occurring with a control without. Layered and stopped and moving still, clashing and crashing colors. Moving. Still.

Graduating from Pratt (MFA 2022), Omar E. Saad is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in New Jersey.

Omar E. Saad, [somepain,someaint] 2023, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 48 inches

Kath is a queer artist from Washington state, currently living in Bellingham. They graduated with a double degree from University of Washington in 2016: BFA in Painting & Drawing and a BA in English Literature. Kath’s studio practice focuses on creating unexpected relationships between disparate materials—both organic and inorganic. The attention toward relational dynamics in their work is centered on the notion of “two-ness,” or how we exist and situate ourselves within polarities. Although in flux, they understand this universal two-ness as the experience of finding ourselves both in and out, attached and disconnected, supported and falling—the kinds of dualities that saturate our human experiences, and rub up closely against the unsettling graininess of desire, memory, and power. Kath’s material work with form strives to exist as some kind of mirror, or at least a way to pause and peer at ways of being more closely. Kath has had a solo show, “Signs of Feeling,” at Terrain Gallery in Spokane, Washington and has been an artist-in-residence at Sou’Wester Arts Week in Seaside, Washington, PLAYA in Summer Lake, Oregon, and most recently the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild in Woodstock, NY.

Kath Spilker, beholdenandlitup,Found Fabric, Plaster, Chalk paste, String, Acrylic, Wood, 40 x 58 x 1”

Noah S. Thompson is a New England-based image maker and storyteller raised between Oregon and New Mexico. Their practice involves investigating the markers, meanings, and mythologies humans give to the natural world. They see these artifacts as portals and use photography to draw connections between them and moments of curiosity. These inquiries are motivated by a sensation of wonder, transforming the taken-for-granted natural world through photography and other media to invite others to reflect, remember, and imagine. Their work is thus often quiet, even ghostly, blending the organic and human-made, the unknown and unknowable, calling for consideration regarding the ways in which we interact with and understand our surroundings.

Noah received their dual BA in English and Art & Art History from Dickinson College before pursuing a career in museum education. Noah is currently an MFA Studio Art candidate at the University of Connecticut. They have exhibited in a variety of venues including the Mattatuck Museum of Art & History, Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, birds + Richard Gallery Berlin, and the Da Vinci Art Alliance of Philadelphia. Their work is in the collections of Dickinson College and the MINI Museum of Philadelphia. Noah is also a recent recipient of the Ford/Knauth Fellowship for LGBTQIA+ Artists at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild.

Noah S. Thompson, Shadowsechoinstoneandroot.(triptych), Chine-collé photopolymer etchings on Kitakata, 24” x 30”

Noah S. Thompson

Ana Wieder-Blank is a contemporary artist working in painting, ceramic sculpture, installation, and performance.

Ana works with narratives from the Torah, Greek, and Indian Mythologies, and fairy tales. These stories are loaded with political, gender and allegories that are as potent today as they ever were. She is particularly interested in narratives that deal with ideas of outsider marginalization, queer sexuality, environmental concerns and issues of rape and consent. Ana Wieder-Blank couples womyn characters together and explore dynamics of hidden and overt love, jealousy and escape of patriarchy. She creates the voices of womyn in these narratives. She changes, distorts, and extends narratives past their end to create contemporary political allegory.

Ana Wieder-Blank graduated in 2011 with an MFA in visual arts from Pratt Institute, with a concentration in painting. In addition to her Thesis show at Pratt she has had three solo exhibitions at Honey Ramka Gallery, in Bushwick. Her first solo show WomenofSongwas reviewed very positively in the Brooklyn Rail. Her second solo show StrangeFriendshas been featured on the James Kalm report and Brooklyn Arts Magazine. Her third and most recent solo show The FairyTaleProtestershas been featured in White Hot Magazine, James Kalm Rough Cuts, 2 Coats of Paint, Art Spiel and more. She was selected for the Directors Tour at Pulse Miami 2016. Her work has been featured in numerous group shows at Honey Ramka Gallery, Novella Gallery, Regina Rex Gallery, Ceres Gallery, The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art and more. She also recently completed a mural in the Lower East Side that was proposed to and accepted by Arts for the City, a nonprofit public arts initiative in NYC.

Ana Weider-Blank, ByrdcliffeTragedy, Acrylic and oil pastel on Paper, 18” x 22”

Rochelle Voyles

Rochelle Voyles is a Brooklyn based multi-disciplinary artist originally from Toledo, Ohio who works in hand cut collage and acrylic paint. She received her BFA in Fine Arts/Printmaking from Pratt Institute. Her art is an act of deciphering human history and intent through the dislocation, concealment, and repurposing of found images.

She was a February 2023 resident at The Peter Bullough Foundation Residency in Winchester, VA, a September 2022 resident at the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, NY, and an April 2021 resident at the ChaNorth ChaShama Artist Residency in Pine Plains, NY. She has shown at galleries in New York such as Trestle Gallery, Peninsula Art Space, The Local Project, and Collarworks.

Her recent shows include “Floriography” curated by Sonja John at The Yard: Greenpoint, “Re-imagining Rural” with Chashama at One Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn, NY, “Void in Flux” at Random Access Gallery, Syracuse, NY, and “Not just Another Anthropocenic Love Story” at Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

Rochelle Voyles, SolarMass,Acrylic paint on canvas, 12” x 12”

Alex Younger is a multidisciplinary artist born in Oakland, California and raised in the Capital District of New York State. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Swarthmore College in 2012 with an Honors Major in English Literature and a Course Major/Honors Minor in Studio Art and received her MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2018. She is a Gold Złoty Medal Laureate from the 16th International Tapestry Triennial and a Silver Medal winner from the 13th International Scythia Biennial. Younger has shown internationally and across the United States, including Chicago, New York City, Indianapolis, Portugal, Ukraine, and Poland and her work is in the permanent collection of the Centralne Muzeum Włókiennictwa w Łodzi. She has been awarded numerous residencies including those with ACRE Projects, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, and the Studios at MASS MoCA and has received an Integrity: Arts & Culture Association Mini-Grant and the Trabue Women’s Professional Arts Grant. Her work focuses on the systems and structures that maintain and support sexual violence, combining research-sourced texts and images with haptic surfaces and display to de-neutralize the sources and achieve poetics through the material’s interaction with the didactic content it contains. She currently teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Alex Younger, ModernRelics, Glass frit screenprint on kiln glass, 17” x 21”

Specialthanks:

Catherine McNeal, President, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Board

The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild Exhibitions Committee

Ursula Morgan, Executive Director of the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild

Gabriella Kirby, Office Manager, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild

William Noonan, Exhibition Installer

Gat Gabriel, Byrdcliffe Gallery Shop Manager

Meagan Daly, Byrdcliffe Gallery Shop Associate

Susanna Ronner Design, Banners and Graphic Design

John Kleinhans, Installation Photographs

Julia Maisel-Berick, Exhibition Intern

Catalogue Design: Jen Dragon and Julia Maisel-Berick