ARTISTS
BEING-SOUND
b e i n g - s o u n d is a collaborative interdisciplinary project between Joro-Boro (sound artist, music producer, DJ & video artist) and Mary Keena Frisbee (architectural designer, sound artist & instrumentalist).
b e i n g - s o u n d explores the intersection of place, presence, listening, and relating - to oneself, to others, and to the non-human world.
b e i n g - s o u n d creates time-based experiential art, sound and video installations, interactive experiences, live bass meditations, tea and ambient rituals, and DJ sets. The work weaves a variety of sound sources (live, recorded, processed through effects, acoustic, electronic, etc.) to open us to the wonders and mysteries hidden in everyday life.
Being as sound and silence, stillness and movement.
b e i n g - s o u n d has presented work at various events and galleries across the United States and internationally. A partial list includes Tibet House, Judson Church, and Queens Museum in NYC, ProArts Gallery in Oakland, CA, Oregon Eclipse Festival in Summit Prairie, OR, Impulse Festival in Poitiers, FR. They have received grants from Guerilla Science and CREATE Council on the Arts. Mary Keena Frisbee has a BA in Architecture from University of Florida (Gainesville, FL) and Joro-Boro has a BA in Social and Historical Inquiry from The New School (New York, NY). They live in Hudson, NY.
Funding Credit for being-sound: Mobile Tea House:
The Mobile Tea House project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered in Columbia County by the Greene County Council on the Arts dba CREATE Council for Resources to Enrich the Arts, Technology & Education.
BINDLESTIFF FAMILY CIRKUS
PERFORMERS
The Bindlestiff Family Cirkus, based in Hudson and Brooklyn, has been making original circus work, connecting through community education, and supporting emerging artists in our field since 1995. Twin County performances are part of Bindlestiff’s Summer of Joy including free activities like: Summer Cirkus, with weekly free classes at Hudson Youth Center’s Oakdale Lake camp followed by an intensive week-long circus camp and stilt walking camp with 2021 Artists-in-Residence Kaisokah Moko Jumbies from NYC; Hudson Juggling Club, with weekly meetings at Waterfront Wednesdays in Hudson, and free shows of Bindlestiff’s Flatbed Follies in Hudson, Catskill, and NYC’s 5 Boroughs. Here in the Twin Counties, Bindlestiff’s Summer of Joy Activities are sponsored by the New York State Council on the Arts under Governor Andrew Cuomo; NYSCA’s #RestartNY grant; Operation Unite New York; Hudson innkeepers Wm. Farmer & Sons; The City of Hudson Common Council’s Tourism Board, The Hudson Youth Center, Stewart’s Shops, Hudson River Bank and Trust Foundation, and Friends of Hudson Youth. For more information about upcoming shows, visit www.bindlestiff.org
Photo Credit: Zach Neven
CORY ARCANGEL
ARTIST
Cory Arcangel lives and works in Stavanger, Norway and Brooklyn, New York. He is a composer, artist, and entrepreneur. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Greene Naftali, New York (2021); Firstsite Gallery, Essex, United Kingdom (2019); CC Foundation, Shanghai (2019); The Kitchen, New York (2017); Galleria D’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy (2015); Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2012); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2011); and the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich (2005).
His work is in the collections of Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.; Tate, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.
Photo Credit: Tim Barber
Visual Art Exhibition:
Second Ward Foundation (71 N. 3rd Street)
Saturday, August 28th, 2021 @ 7:30PM
THOMAS A CLARK
POET
The poet Thomas A Clark lives in a fishing village on the east coast of Scotland. His work responds to the different landscapes of the Highlands & Islands. In the summer months, with the artist Laurie Clark, he runs Cairn Gallery, a space for minimal and conceptual art. For THE HUDSON EYE, The Flow Chart Foundation’s INCIDENT REPORT windows will feature work by Thomas A Clark and Becca Van K. In Clark’s “The Freeing of the Waters,” Gaelic river names flow across a moving light sign, suggesting the importance of water courses and of local culture and lore for their preservation. Here, the rivers of Scotland flow through the streets of Hudson.
Clark’s installation will be complemented by a work by Becca Van K, a mixed-media fiber artist based in New York’s Catskill Mountains. She has created a new needlepoint landscape inspired by the Hudson River for the installation. Van K has exhibited widely in the Hudson Valley & Capital Regions, and firmly believes in art as a conduit for community support and engagement. She is a 2021 recipient of a NYSCA Decentralization Grant through CREATE and a 2020 recipient of the NYFA’s “Keep NYS Creating” Grant.
Toward opening new possibilities, The Flow Chart Foundation explores poetry and the interrelationships of various art forms as guided by the legacy of John Ashbery. Its storefront INCIDENT REPORT windows offer an interface with the many publics of the street, showcasing concepts and issues generated by artists and social thinkers. The INCIDENT REPORT windows have featured formally arranged projects as well as improvised situations for more than a decade. This installation is part of a project series called REPORTS.
CONCRETE TEMPLE THEATRE
THEATRE COMPANY
CONCRETE TEMPLE THEATRE is a multi-disciplinary company, committed to the creation of compelling new theatrical works, incorporating drama, dance, puppetry, music and the visual arts. Since 2004, our company has created devised visual theatre that challenges the traditional relationship between design and text. Through touring original works and presenting workshops in NYC, nationally and internationally, we strive to bring myth and ritual back to the center of dialogue, by presenting works and workshops that address real issues within communities (grief, family relationships, environmental stewardship). As The Brooklyn Rail stated, “Ambitious production is the norm for Concrete Temple, a creative ensemble with a strong focus on ritual theatre, multi-disciplinary storytelling and the collective experience.” We have presented our work for NYC audiences at venues like Ohio Theatre, HERE, and Barrow Street Theatre and have been artist-in-residence in NYC at The Flea Theater, Dixon Place, Mabou Mines, St. Ann’s Warehouse and chashama. Concrete Temple has toured work nationally at venues like: The Yard, Bard Summerscape, Detroit Institute of Arts, Pontine Theatre, Dairy Center for the Arts, Amphibian Stage Productions and internationally: London, Sri Lanka, India, Bulgaria, Turkey, Italy, Scotland, South Korea and Costa Rica.
Carlo Adinolfi (Performer/Designer) is Co-Artistic Director of Concrete Temple Theatre and a Dancer, Designer, Actor, and TD. As a performer, he has had two-acclaimed Off-Broadway solo shows: The Whale and Geppetto: Extraordinary Extremities. Other favorite performances include Bird Machine, Hudson to China, and Alberto’s Great Escape. He has toured Concrete Temple Theatre’s original work nationally at venues like: The Yard, Bard Summerscape, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Detroit Institute of Arts, Pontine Theatre, Dairy Center for the Arts, Amphibian Stage Productions and internationally: Sri Lanka, India, Bulgaria, Turkey, Italy, Scotland, England, Germany, South Korea and Costa Rica. Carlo has danced with Laura Pawel, Sara Pearson/Patrik Widrig, Corner Store, and Spoke the Hub. He has been resident artist at Wildroot Arts, Nantucket Historical Association, The Yard, Workspace for Choreographers, Flea Theatre, Flint Institute of Arts and Hudson Opera House. He is the recipient of an Independent Artists Challenge Program Award, Jim Henson Foundation Grants, EST/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Commission, a Berkshire Taconic Foundation Commission and the Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Award.
Renee Phillipi (Writer/Director) is Co-Artistic Director of Concrete Temple Theatre, and for over 25 years, Renee has been writing and directing in NYC, having two acclaimed Off-Broadway productions. She has toured work nationally at venues like: The Yard, Bard Summerscape, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Detroit Institute of Arts, Pontine Theatre, Dairy Center for the Arts, Amphibian Stage Productions and internationally: Sri Lanka, India, Bulgaria, Turkey, Italy, Scotland, England, Germany, South Korea and Costa Rica. Renee is a member of Spiderwoman Theatre, Women’s Project Directors Forum, Lincoln Center’s Directors Lab, New Georges, LPTW and has been Artist-in-Residence with Mabou Mines, Playwrights Center Minneapolis, Directors Company, Nantucket Historical Association, The Flea, The Yard, Dixon Place, and Directing Fellow, Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Visual Art Exhibition:
Galvan Foundation (400 State Street)
Tuesday, August 31st, 2021 @ 7:30PM
PAULINE DECARMO
VISUAL ARTIST
“My work is based on my surroundings, past and present. I’m motivated by things that move me, thrill me and anger me. I see a vast amount of space and I want to fill it with paint...”
Pauline earned a BFA in Communication Design from Parsons School of Design and a BA in Studio Art (Painting and Drawing) from The City College of New York. Originally from Guyana South America, she was raised in Queens and now lives and makes art in Hudson.
www.paulinedecarmoartist.com
Photo Credit: David McIntyre
Visual Art Exhibition:
Galvan Foundation (400 State Street)
Tuesday, August 31st, 2021 @ 7:30PM
JEFFREY GIBSON
ARTIST
Jeffrey Gibson is an interdisciplinary artist and MacArthur Fellow based in Hudson, NY. His artworks make reference to various aesthetic and material histories rooted in Indigenous cultures of the Americas, and in modern and contemporary subcultures. Gibson's previous exhibitions include, Jeffrey Gibson, LIKE A HAMMER, organized by the Denver Art Museum, and This Is The Day, organized by The Wellin Museum. Other notable solo exhibitions include: When Fire Is Applied To A Stone It Cracks (2019) The Brooklyn Museum; The Anthropophagic Effect (2019) The New Museum, New York; Look How Far We've Come! (2017), Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee; Jeffrey Gibson: Speak to Me, (2017), Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City; and A Kind of Confession (2016), Savannah College of Art and Design Museum, Savannah. Select group exhibitions include: The 2019 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, NYC, Aftereffect (2019), Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Suffering from Realness (2019), Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adam, MA; and Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices, 1950s to Now (2018), Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, AR. Gibson has upcoming exhibitions at Mass MoCA, The Aspen Art Museum, and deCordova Sculpture Park. Jeffrey Gibson sits on the Andy Warhol Foundation Board and the Participant INC Board, he is a Governor for The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Gibson is also a member of the faculty at Bard College.
JACOB GRAHAM
PUPPETEER
Jacob Graham is the Brooklyn-based artist behind the critically-acclaimed puppet film series The Creatures of Yes. Growing up in northeast Ohio, he dabbled in magic and the circus arts, and experimented with music and video cameras before ultimately focusing on puppetry. After high school, he worked for a decade as a puppeteer with Walt Disney Entertainment while refining his writing and performing skills at local puppetry showcases and improv nights put on by Heather Henson.
Jacob began The Creatures of Yes in 2015, and it soon after became part of the VICE Creators Project. The Creatures of Yes films have been shown at film festivals around the world including Series Fest 2017, where judge Charlie Sextro of the Sundance Film Festival gave it a ”SUPER DUPER honorable mention,” describing it as “a weird puppet delight”.
Part comedy, part social commentary, The Creatures of Yes is also an experiment in time travel, using equipment from the late 1970’s or earlier, and in particular a cathode-ray tube camera with its various artifacts and ghostly vapor trails. While the aesthetic owes a lot to early public access television, the overall effect of the show has often been described as mystical, and familiar yet otherworldly; it is certainly as influenced by the films of Jean Cocteau and Kenneth Anger as it is by Jim Henson’s early work.
Jacob and his company are currently working on the first Creatures of Yes feature length film.
Photo Credit: Jacob Graham
SHELLEY HIRSCH
ARTIST & PERFORMER
Shelley Hirsch is a vocal artist, performer, composer, and storyteller whose performances, compositions, improvisations, electronic music pieces, sound installations, collaborations, multimedia work, and radio plays have been presented at concert halls, museums, theaters, galleries, clubs, radio worldwide.
In 2018, her works were acquired for the archive at The Fales Library at NYU, for their Downtown Collection.
Other honors include The John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition 2017; The Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants for Artists 2017. Her most recent is a NYSCA music composition commission in 2021.
Hirsch can be heard on over 70 recordings, including several on the Tzadik and FMP Labels.
The New York Times called her “A woman of a thousand voices... She offered an enthralling demonstration of the way songs, vocal styles and language might have evolved out of more primal musical impulses”.
www.shelleyhirsch.com.
Photo Credit: Ka Baird
HUÊ THI HOFFMASTER
ARTIST
Huê (hWay) Thi Hoffmaster, the son of Vietnamese and American parents, is a painter, Self-Expression Mentor and Coach. Huê studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (2001 - 2005). Huê is shamelessly a multidisciplinary painter working in different styles from objective/figurative works to nonobjective and abstract paintings drawing artistic inspiration through self-development, healing, playful expression, and the joys and sorrows of life.
Huê has produced artwork and exchanged it privately with collectors for 20 years. He’s shown at a The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum in 2005 selling his entire collection. Most recently he has participated in the exhibition “Jewel the Wound” at The Hudson Milliner Art Salon (October 2020) and a sold-out solo show at PLACE Millerton in 2017.
Huê lives and works in Hudson, New York.
Visual Art Exhibition:
Galvan Foundation (400 State Street)
Tuesday, August 31st, 2021 @ 7:30PM
JENNIE C. JONES
ARTIST
Jennie C. Jones (b.1968) was born in Cincinnati, OH and lives and works in Hudson, NY. Drawing on painting, sculpture, sound, and installation, Jones’s conceptual works reflect on the legacy of modernism and minimalism, while their unconventional materials and reductive compositions highlight the perception of sound within the visual arts. Jones’s solo exhibitions include Jennie C. Jones: Constant Structure, The Arts Club of Chicago, IL (2020); Compilation, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX (2016); Absorb/Diffuse, The Kitchen, New York, NY (2013); and Directions: Jennie C. Jones: Higher Resonance, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (2013); among others. Her work has been included in countless group exhibitions, including Ground/work, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (2020); The Shape of Shape, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2019); Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO (2017); The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2015); and Silence, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (2012). Jones’s work is in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum
of Art, CA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY; and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; among others. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Rose Art Museum, Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence Award (2017); Robert Rauschenberg Award (2016); Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant (2013); The Studio Museum in Harlem, Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize (2012); and William H. Johnson Prize (2008).
Photo Credit: Jennie C. Jones, 2015. Photo: Jason Frank Rothenberg
Visual Art Exhibition:
Second Ward Foundation (71 N. 3rd Street)
Saturday, August 28th, 2021 @ 7:30PM
sondra loring
Sondra is an interdisciplinary queer witch, sharing somatic practices, yoga, meditation, science, poetry, farming and dance, with a strong sense of play, and a nurturing of community. She lives on Feathertail Farm, a small shared garden.
Photo Credit: Kelly Kamm @famouspinkraincoat
REGINALD MADISON
ARTIST
Reginald Madison (b. 1941, Chicago, IL) is a painter and sculptor. In his early years, Madison was greatly influenced by his parents’ love of jazz and the stories they told of seeing Sun-Ra at the legendary Club DeLisa on Chicago’s south side, and by the family’s frequent trips to the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. In 1970, Madison was invited to participate in an art show that helped to establish him in the emerging arts scene in Chicago, and he went on to travel and study art independently in Paris, Venice, and Copenhagen. He was represented by Phyllis Kind Gallery, NYC after moving to Western Massachusetts in the 1970’s. His work has been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Historic Hudson Hall, the Ace Hotel Chicago, SEPTEMBER Gallery, and CR10 Arts, among others. In 2020 Madison curated Art & Soul, an exhibition at Historic Hudson Hall that included the work of David Hammons and Tschabalala Self, among others. He also organized Melodius Thunk, a Jazz Music Festival on the waterfront in Hudson, NY, 2021. Madison is a 2021 recipient of the NEA Artist Residency at Basilica Hudson. His work has recently been acquired by the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection. Madison currently lives and works in Hudson, NY.
Photo Credit: Shannon Greer
Program Credit:
In partnership with The Hudson Eye, Basilica Hudson and SEPTEMBER Gallery, Madison will present a series of paintings on view at the gallery throughout the duration of the festival from August 27-September 6, with an extended viewing through October 3.
Reginald Madison and his exhibition “Home Grown” are supported in concert between The Hudson Eye (Festival / Initiator); SEPTEMBER Gallery (Exhibition Venue); and Basilica Hudson (Residency Space) whose visionary roles in the Hudson community combined to support Reginald Madison with a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Art Works Residency Award at Basilica Hudson for the creation of the artwork in “Home Grown.” The National Endowment for the Arts supports exemplary arts projects in communities nationwide. Madison is a recipient of the NEA grant for his residency at Basilica, Hudson. Added programming and popups may occur at the creative initiation of the artist. All Sales are to be directed to SEPTEMBER Gallery. The Hudson Eye and its artists are curated annually by Aaron Levi Garvey. Program Updated: 8/24/2021
CHRISTIAN MARCLAY
ARTIST
For nearly 40 years, Christian Marclay (b. 1955, San Rafael, California) has been exploring the connections between vision and sound, creating works in which these two sensibilities enrich and challenge one another. Marclay garnered international acclaim at the 54th Venice Biennale for his masterpiece video work, The Clock, for which he received the prestigious Golden Lion award. Marclay’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including one-person presentations at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C. (1990); the Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva (1995); the Kunsthaus, Zurich (1997); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2001); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2002); Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain, Geneva (2008); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2010); Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2010); Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow (2011); and the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2019). His work is in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; the Tate Modern, London; and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Photo Credit: Christian Marclay with the organ in the Huddersfield Town Hall in England. Photo: @andyhaslamphoto. Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
Visual Art Exhibition:
Second Ward Foundation (71 N. 3rd Street)
Saturday, August 28th, 2021 @ 7:30PM
BARBARA MARKS
ARTIST
Barbara Marks is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in the New Haven, CT area. She studied painting at Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, earning a BFA in 2005, followed by an MFA from Brooklyn College CUNY in 2008. Marks creates sumptuous, multicolored paintings. Her canvases are small in scale, compared to the mid-century abstractionist traditions they recall. Initially perceivable as evolutions from this art historical lineage, Marks’ compositions push further—into both the three-dimensional and psychological realms—while invoking a striking immediacy. For the artist, color is not merely employed as pigment, but rather as form, integral to the composition. On view at Susan Eley Fine Art during The Hudson Eye festival—the paintings from Marks’ series “Painting[s] from Recollection” are rendered in her characteristic square shape, and they comprise a visual record of places that she has visited. Upon closer observation—walls, angles and perspective lines—interiors and landscapes— emerge. Viewers find themselves teetering into curious, liminal spaces between abstraction and representation, where reality slips into dream states. An ongoing series, “Recollection” currently exceeds 150 works, which are numbered rather than didactically titled. Thus, collectively, these explorations reveal Marks’ intention to free painting from fixed interpretation, allowing for a continuum of interpretations by artist and viewers. Additionally, Susan Eley Fine Art’s exhibition will debut Marks’ new series of “Upcycled” drawings and paintings on collapsed, disassembled packaging material, notably cardboard boxes, which she re-envisions structurally and aesthetically. SEFA will also feature a selection of Marks’ “Isolation Journal,” comprised of over 52 accordion-fold volumes of drawings that document her time and the minutiae of daily life in COVID isolation—living alone in coastal Connecticut, yet creating expansive, immersive depictions of the environment within and around her.
MONÈT NOELLE MARSHALL
Monèt Noelle Marshall is a director, playwright, actor, curator, cultural organizer, producer, filmmaker and consultant. She defines her artistic practice as "rehearsal for the relationship". She centers Black women and Black queer folks in her work while creating acess points for all people. She is the founding Artistic Director of MOJOAA Performing Arts Company, a Black theater company in Raleigh, NC that centers Black playwrights of the South. Her work has been experienced in St. Ann’s Warehouse, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Open Eye Figure Theatre, Northstar Church of the Arts, Manbites Dog Theatre and Mordecai Historic Park. Most recently she has collaborated with African American Policy Forum on Gucci’s Chime for Change zine, Scalawag Magazine, NC Museum of Art, Historic Stagville, City of Raleigh, Columbia University and Hayti Heritage Center. But above all else, Marshall is most proud of being Robin and Bryan’s daughter.
Photo Credit: Caroline Cockrell
MMS
MUSICIAN
Born and raised in New York’s Hudson Valley, MMS is a sound artist, composer and musician who employs field recordings, tape loops, prepared guitar, and musique concrete techniques to create decaying soundscapes and immersive drones.
The work of MMS is about discovering the notes between the notes, the sound inside of other sounds while exploring themes of nature, time, consciousness and impermanence using aleatory practices in composition, performance, and editing. MMS’s compositions draw artistic inspiration from the writings of Dōgen Zenji, the poetry of John Cage, and natural beauty of upstate New York.
MMS earned a B.A. in History from the State University of New York at Purchase College followed by an M.A. in East Asian Studies from St. John’s University in Queens, NY. After many years participating in NYC’s underground music scene, MMS relocated to the Hudson Valley in 2017 to reorient his work in nature and mindfulness.
Photo Credit: MMS
DAVID NORSWORTHY
CHOREOGRAPHER
David Norsworthy (he/him) is a Tkarón:to/Toronto-based dance artist, choreographer and arts educator of mixed Japanese immigrant/British settler descent who is “an exceptionally lucid performer, impressive and articulate” (The Globe and Mail). A graduate of The Juilliard School, he delights in asking questions, and believes deeply in the transformative power of dancing. David has performed with dance companies and collaborated with dance creators in Canada, USA, Sweden and Australia, and his choreographic career has included independently produced full-length works, and commissioned projects for companies, universities and schools. David is the grateful recipient of the Living Arts Centre’s Ron Lenyk Award and was one of three finalists for the Toronto Arts Foundation’s Emerging Artist Award. David is a Co-Founder and Co- Director of TOES FOR DANCE, a non-profit organization that produces workshops and performances across Canada. Additionally, he is a proud member of the Board of Directors for CanAsian Dance. www.davidnorsworthy.com
Photo Credit: Colton Curtis
KRIS PERRY
SCULPTOR
Born in Berkeley, CA, Kris Perry lives and works in Hudson, NY. Perry makes large-scale kinetic sculptures that cultivate an understanding of human experience by creating a visual language through form and gesture. Passionate about public art, he has been commissioned to construct pieces where people can gather to ask questions and share experiences. He currently has works on view at Rockaway Beach, Queens, NY, the Hudson Public Library and the grounds of SoMo Village, Rohnert Park, CA. In 2018, he collaborated with James Beard Award-winning chef Zak Pelaccio to create a series of sculptures that doubled as grills for the cooking festival Play with Fire. His much-heralded Machines (2012-13) combined industrial sound sculptures with live performance in collaboration with musicians Tommy Stinson, Elvis Perkins, Brian Dewan, and others. In 2015, he had his first solo show at R. Wells Gallery. A skilled metal fabricator, he has also worked with David Best on large-scale projects at Burning Man and public installations like Esperanza at a train station in Sacramento, CA. He is the recipient of several grants and residencies including the Voigt Family Sculpture Foundation (2014), Free103Point9 Media Distribution Grant (2013), and Peter S. Reed Foundation Grant (2012). His works are held in a number of private collections. Perry attended California College of Art and studied under illustrator Charles Pyle.
Photo Credit: Angus Mordant
Visual Art Exhibition:
Galvan Foundation (400 State Street)
Tuesday, August 31st, 2021 @ 7:30PM
PADMA RAJENDRAN
ARTIST
Padma Rajendran was born in Klang, Malaysia. She studied at Bryn Mawr College and received her M.F.A from Rhode Island School of Design. She has exhibited at the International Print Center New York, Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn), INDEX (Los Angeles), Beers London (UK), Field Projects (New York) and September Gallery (Hudson NY). She lives and works in Catskill, NY and teaches printmaking at SUNY Purchase. Her works on fabric experiment with the clash and combination of pattering and storytelling. Her content rich compositions reference the duality and contradictions of culture and the multi-faceted definitions of universal heritage. Her work ha been featured in New American Paintings, Art Maze Magazine, ad Maake Magazine and is currently on view at BRIC Arts Media in Brooklyn, NY.
Photo Credit: Don Stahl
Visual Art Exhibition:
Galvan Foundation (400 State Street)
Tuesday, August 31st, 2021 @ 7:30PM
EMILY RITZ
ARTIST
Musician and multidisciplinary visual artist, Emily Ritz lives a life immersed in creativity. Emily makes tender, exploratory work which draws as much on the harmonious swells and hollows of the natural world, as on personal experience and internal work around self- acceptance and self-love.
A touring musician for over a decade, Emily began her musical career in California, forming bands Yesway and Honeycomb. After moving back home to upstate NY, Emily self-released her first solo record Pattern Recess in 2018. While classic elements of jazz and R&B can be heard, Ritz's sound is enticingly off-kilter due to her subtly unusual melodic choices and inventive use of electronic manipulation. She uses her voice to weave complex harmonies and avant-garde patterns while delivering poignant and romantic lyrics.
Emily released her sophomore album In Love Alone on January 1st, 2021. The new record explores the fundamental duality of existence, playing loneliness against catharsis, longing against healing, and solitude against love itself. Arranged and produced in Northern CA by Here We Go Magic’s Luke Temple, this is a record of roomy and expansive neo- soul with a psychedelic pop twist.
Photo Credit: Tomm Roesch
Visual Art Exhibition:
Galvan Foundation (400 State Street)
Tuesday, August 31st, 2021 @ 7:30PM
Music Performance:
Basilica Hudson (110 S. Front Street)
Thursday, September 2nd, 2021 @ 7:30PM
DANIEL ROTHBART
ARTIST
Daniel Rothbart is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer. Rothbart holds a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design, and an M.F.A. from Columbia University. He is the author of three books. Jewish Metaphysics as Generative Principle in American Art (1994) explores the relationship between Jewish culture and post-war American abstraction. The Story of the Phoenix (1999) examines American cultural identity, Hollywood, and the transmutation of meaning through digital collages inhabited by his sculpture. Seeing Naples: Reports from the Shadow of Vesuvius (2018) is a book of travel writing inspired by Rothbart’s experiences as a Fulbright scholar in Naples during the early 1990’s. The work combines personal narrative with stories from the city’s history, ancient and modern, that speak to Neapolitan values and culture.
Themes in Rothbart’s studio work include the relationship between nature and urban identity. Floating sculptures explore the human relationship with and dependence upon water, often taking a role in re-enchantment performances, such as WATERLINES in Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal. Sculptural objects interpret branch forms in nature and their relationship to industrialized structures of the urban landscape. The ongoing Meditation | Mediation project is based on performative interactions between invited artists and Rothbart’s sculptural vessels. The vessels in this context become shifting signifiers filled with transient meanings. Digital collages explore American cultural identity and transmutation of meaning through film stills and photographs that are inhabited by his sculpture.
Rothbart’s work can be found in public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Photo Credit: Chrystèle Burlot
LYDIA RUBIO
ARTIST
Lydia Rubio is a Cuban-born American multidisciplinary artist with a 40-year studio practice that includes large-scale public art. Painting is the core of her conceptually driven practice. Many of her works are modular to invite interaction and relate to nature, transformation, and change. Her paintings were recently shown in two solo shows, Constellations and Prohibito, at Elevated Matter gallery in Hudson, NY (2021).
Rubio holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard University. She has been awarded a Tree of Life, an Ellies, a Pollock Krasner, and a Cintas Fellowship. Her solo museum exhibitions include the Bronx Museum of the Arts and The Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale and group exhibitions at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Latin American Art Long Beach CA, Snite Museum of Art, Pratt Manhattan Gallery. The Lowe Museum of Art, the Eskenazi Museum, the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Stanford University, and Bryn Mawr College have all acquired her works for their permanent collections.
A traveler and avid reader, Rubio has been influenced by multiple cultures and cities. She is based in Hudson, NY.
Photo Credit: Patrick Farrell
Web: www.lydiarubio.com
Instagram: @lydiarubiostudio
AÏDA RUILOVA
MUSICIAN & ARTIST
Aïda Ruilova is a classically trained musician and video-artist who employs media with a do-it-yourself aesthetic, often drawing upon contexts that exist outside the art world. Her films are imbued with strong formal and associative relationships to music, as well as more visceral experiences of discrete sounds. These sounds serve to reinforce the physicality of her editing style (fast and rhythmic cuts, extreme close ups) as well as the isolation, claustrophobia, and extreme psychological stresses alluded to throughout her work. Often inspired by the imagery of independent movies from the 1960s and 70s and vintage promotion material Ruilova also creates unique collages and sculptures.
Her work has been shown in numerous galleries and group exhibitions, includinG representation in multiple international Art Biennials, and nominated for the Hugo Boss Prize for contemporary art in 2006. She lives and works in New York City.
Photo Credit: Chris Sanders
Visual Art Exhibition:
Second Ward Foundation (71 N. 3rd Street)
Saturday, August 28th, 2021 @ 7:30PM
SKYLA SCHRETER
CHOREOGRAPHER
Skyla Schreter is a New York based independent choreographer, formerly a dancer with San Francisco Ballet. Originally from New York City, she received her formal dance training at the School of American Ballet in Manhattan, and went on to dance professionally with Boston Ballet, and for six seasons with San Francisco Ballet.
She has created live and filmed dance works with dancers from San Francisco Ballet, New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Los Angeles Ballet and Pennsylvania Ballet, among others. Her dance works have been presented on both coasts, as well as internationally. Her 2019 dance film “A Flower’’ was chosen as an Official Selection for the 2019 San Francisco Dance Festival and the 2020 Virtual Pathways Dance Festival, and won the ‘Audience Choice Award’ at the 2020 Utah Dance Film Festival. As a dancer with San Francisco Ballet, Schreter created featured roles in new works by William Forysthe, David Dawson and Cathy Marston, in addition to performing an extensive array of classical and contemporary ballet repertory, including works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Justin Peck, Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon.
Following her retirement from San Francisco Ballet in Spring 2020, Skyla relocated back to her New York roots to continue developing her body of choreographic work. She has since been creating dance in New York City as well as from her creative headquarters in Beacon, NY; newly founded art space LotusWorks Gallery & Workshop.
Photo Credit: Claire Deane
JOE SULTAN
ARCHITECT & ARTIST
Currently living and working in Germantown, NY, Joe Sultan was trained as an architect. He received his degree from The Cooper Union in 1976 and established his own practice in 1980. In 2005, Sultan became CEO of Chilewich, a textile design company known for contemporary place settings and flooring, where he set up the domestic manufacturing of their products. Building and constructing have consistently served as integral aspects of Sultan’s daily life and creative practice. When he built a house in the Hudson Valley in 2012, he began making furniture and then sculpture from found trees on his property. Literally rooted in the nature of the Hudson Valley—the artist builds his sculptures with sticks and branches that he hand-cuts from fallen trees and logs. He uses a chainsaw and chisels to mine for the forms within each piece of wood, and next begins the additive part of his process: connecting and interweaving the fragments together to create sculptures that are sensitive to space—how it is enclosed, defined and balanced. On view at Susan Eley Fine Art during The Hudson Eye festival—Sultan’s skeletal sculptures are not to be looked at, but rather looked through. Whether mounted on a wall, or posed on a pedestal, his sculptures grow stick by stick: often, they become towering vertical formations, reminiscent of the buildings he once designed. At other times, they manifest as sprawling horizontal amalgamations—admittedly a greater challenge for the architect, accustomed to designing vertically, from the ground up. Sultan does not sketch designs for his sculptures, instead allowing the unexpected twists and turns of the sticks to lead him. According to the artist, the surprises that emerge from the “not-knowing”— perhaps the “un-knowing”—is where the magic resides. After each sculpture is constructed, he paints its components, either multicolor or monochromatic black. For Sultan, the intuitive color choices add to the works’ dimensional qualities, creating perspective and balance.
TSL
(TIME & SPACE LIMITED THEATRE CO., INC.)
THEATRE COMPANY
Linda Mussmann founded Time & Space Limited Theatre Co., Inc. (TSL) in 1973 in New York City and Claudia Bruce joined as co-director in 1976. In 1991, TSL refused a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts that mandated an anti-obscenity pledge. This, combined with rising costs in NYC led TSL to relocate to Hudson, NY. When Claudia and Linda first walked into what would become the new TSL building on Columbia Street (formerly known as Diamond Street in its seedy hey day) in Hudson, they knew it was a dream come true – finding an art space that could be ever evolving.
TSL brings to this community and the entire region, programs of creative energy, that testify to the hopes and dreams of great art and artists past, present, and future. The belief that art is what holds us all together is why TSL does what it does.
Linda Mussmann was born in Gary, Indiana, and grew up on the family farm in Lowell. After high school, she attended Purdue University, earning a BA degree in English and Theater. In 1969, she moved to New York City where, during the day, she worked for the City of NY in the Youth Services agency from 1971 to 1975. In 1973, she founded Time & Space Limited Theatre Co., Inc. (TSL), dedicated to alternative, experimental theater. In 1990, TSL moved to Hudson NY and took up residence in a former bakery warehouse building where TSL’s mission was expanded to include community outreach programs of all kinds including the screening of documentary, independent, and classic films, broadcasts of live simulcasts events, year-round youth programs, gallery exhibitions, and live performance. Linda has been the creative, administrative, and fundraising spark plug throughout the 48 years of TSL’s existence.
Claudia Bruce was born in Mississippi and grew up in a small town in northeast Georgia. She graduated from Mary Baldwin College (Staunton VA) in1968, attended one year of graduate school at Catholic University to study theater, and migrated to NYC in 1969. She worked, part time, as a waitress and at Majority Report, the women’s newspaper, from 1970 to 1975, as a copy editor, administrator and data entry, and graphic artist. She began working with Linda Mussmann in 1976 and has been the co-director of TSL since then. She is a performing artist as well as graphic designer and administrator and shares the day to day operations at TSL with Mussmann.
Photo Credits L to R:
Claudia Bruce © Karen Crumley Keats
Linda Mussmann © Linda Mussmann
RICH VOLO
ARTIST AND PERFORMER
Rich Volo moved to the City of Hudson in 2006 and shortly thereafter, Trixie Starr was “born”. Dance parties, “Trixie’s Whorehouse” started in Hudson in 2008 with DJ Gio, and Trixie decided it was time for a Pride Parade in Hudson in 2010. Since then, Trixie Starr has organized ten Pride weekends, including Parades, Festivals, and dozens of other events for the community over the years. You can buy cookies, from “Trixie’s Oven” at the Hudson Farmers’ Market on Saturdays 9am-1pm.
Photo Credit: JR MAC Photography
BAJU WIJONO
ARTIST
Baju Wijono was born into a multicultural family, spending much of his youth jumping from country to country, including the U.S., Indonesia, France, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and Germany. This transience gave him a feeling of being home both everywhere and nowhere. This is a recurring theme in his earlier work.
He’s always had a fascination with mechanical objects, seeing a parallel between engine rooms and the human mind. He studied engineering in Germany before deciding to become a full-time artist. He studied fine arts at Columbia University for several years. The juxtaposition of mechanical and organic is a constant theme in his work. He sometimes explains that he sees people from the inside out.
After several decades in Brooklyn, he recently moved his art studio to Hudson, NY to focus on larger-scale work, including painting, installation, and sculpture.
Visual Art Exhibition:
Galvan Foundation (400 State Street)
Tuesday, August 31st, 2021 @ 7:30PM
MONSIEUR ZOHORE
ARTIST
Monsieur Zohore is an Ivorian-American artist based in Baltimore and New York. His practice is invested in the consumption and digestion of
culture through the conflation of domestic quotidian labor with art production. Through performance, sculpture, installation, and theater, his practices explore queer histories alongside his Ivorian-American heritage through a multi-faceted lens of humor, economics, art history, and labor.
He received his BFA from the Cooper Union in 2015 and his MFA from the MarylandInstitute College of Art in 2020. Zohore is the 2020 recipient of the WPA and Warhol Foundation Wherewithal Research Grant. His work has been exhibited in numerous venues including Galleria Bianconi (Milan), Ethan Cohan(New York), Palo Gallery (New York), Springsteen (Baltimore), New Release Gallery (New York), 56 Henry (New York), Canada Gallery (New York),and Jack Barrett Gallery (New York) as well as at the 2020 Material ArtFair (Coyoacan, CMDX). Zohore has also been invited to show at Socrates Sculpture Park (New York), The Rochester Art Center (Rochester) The Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore), Washington Projects for the Arts (Washington D.C.), and at The Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus).
